README.footers

Footers in Mlmmj

Mlmmj’s built-in footer support is very rudimentary. It will work for plain text emails, and that’s about it. It doesn’t understand HTML or MIME or anything like that.

There are a few solutions to this. They all involve piping incoming mail through a filter before it reaches Mlmmj. A script to do this, called mlmmj-amime-receive, is included in amime-receive in the contrib directory.

It can be used with a number of different pre-processors. One day we also hope to improve the integration of these external filters with Mlmmj, e.g. so only list posts are processed. However, the piping solution has worked for a number of people over the years quite satisfactorily, so this is not a high priority.

Here are some pre-processors you can use.

alterMIME

The mlmmj-amime-receive script is designed to work with a program called alterMIME. The script itself (in amime-receive in the contrib directory) contains links to that software, and instructions.