[gmx-developers] Mails rejected with "The message's content type was not explicitly allowed"

[Szilárd Páll]

I'm quite puzzled why is the gmx-users still rejecting non-plain text
messages. There has not been a single opinion in favor of keeping the
mailing list crippled.

So  once again, Rossen (or someone else with the appropriate credentials),
please revert the setting!

--
Szilárd


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Berk Hess <hess at kth.se> wrote:

> On 07/20/2012 01:55 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 7/19/12 6:56 PM, Mark Abraham wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/07/2012 11:24 PM, Rossen Apostolov wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> Recently the Gromacs mailing lists have been used for sending spam and
>>>> viruses, and thus now only plain text messages are accepted.
>>>>
>>>> If you have received rejected mails saying "The message's content type
>>>> was not
>>>> explicitly allowed" it means that you have used in your mail special
>>>> styles or
>>>> formatting (e.g. bold typeface, colors etc.).
>>>>
>>>> Check your email client settings about how to send messages as plain
>>>> text,
>>>> e.g. in GMail make sure to click on "Compose -> Plain Text". Check also
>>>> whether a formatted signature is added.
>>>>
>>>> Attachments are also not allowed but you could include links for
>>>> downloads.
>>>>
>>>> Rossen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Bump.
>>>
>>> I'm happy banning attachments (there's lots of free upload space out
>>> there), but
>>> think that explicitly requiring plain text email is a significant
>>> barrier to
>>> participation. Some web mail clients don't permit a non-HTML mime type -
>>> that's
>>> not our fault but we have to live in that jungle. Some people will walk
>>> away
>>> without bothering to find out if they can configure plain text email.
>>> Others
>>> will judge the technical competence of the team on their ability to run
>>> the
>>> mailing list. If we need to outsource it somewhere, we should do that.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I agree with Mark here.  It seems to me that traffic to the list has been
>> down for a couple of weeks relative to normal, but there may be other
>> factors for that.  What I do know is that I'm getting increasing amounts of
>> emails to my personal inbox starting with "I can't post to the Gromacs
>> list, so I'm sending this to you..." That's an increased burden I'm not
>> willing to bear.  I'm all for community contributions (you all know that ;)
>> but as soon as it becomes my responsibility to handle Gromacs issues, I'm
>> less inclined.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>>  I think everyone agrees that we need to accept html mails.
>
> The question is if we need some filter and when Rossen, or someone else,
> has time to fix this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Berk
>
>
>
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