From: Bjarni R. Einarsson (bre@netverjar.is)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 17:44:34 CST
On 2036-03-04, 20:01:35 (-0800), Alistair Blachford wrote:
> I'm going nuts. I've used Hypermail for years, and like it. But
> I've just compiled v2b29 and it does not allow me to insert HTML in my e-mail
> inbound to the archive. I just see the HTML tags in the archived message.
This "feature" was removed recently (around 2b25-7), because it is "the
wrong way to do it".
The correct way to insert HTML into email, is to use MIME and insert it as a
text/html part, not by just embedding it in the text of your message.
If hypermail parses stuff embedded directly into the message, then archives
won't properly display discussions of HTML syntax, for one thing. The
following paragraph would break:
Not to mention that the
<HTML>
...
</HTML>
syntax broke archives for some browsers, which interpret </HTML> as an
"end of page" marker.
So, there are good reasons not to do what the old version did...
But for backward compatibilities sake, it probably would have been nice if
they had left a "hm_oldinlinehtml" flag in there, or something. Perhaps the
relevant code can be added back in and disabled by default, before the 2.0
release?
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