AMP: the missing controversy

Re:AMP: the missing controversy by ocdtrekkie on Saturday February 24, 2018 @06:28PM (#16456120)

This is really the only way to reject AMP4Email: Refuse to allow it, so that companies wanting to reach their customers can't implement it. However, it's unlikely large mail providers would choose to do this, I can't imagine Microsoft or Yahoo taking such a stand.

My own provider FastMail, has said they of course, can't promise they won't support AMP4Email since compatibility is a major goal of theirs, and I can't fault them for that. (And I significantly appreciate the contribution their blog has made to the discussion on the topic.) I'd love if I had the option to opt into behavior like this though, at least on a personal level.

But if only a few percent of users (or more than likely, a fraction of a percent) are rejecting the mail, it won't dissuade anyone. Companies will pick up AMP4Email so they can push dynamic advertising directly in people's inboxes.

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Re:AMP: the missing controversy by tankenmate on Saturday February 24, 2018 @06:48PM (#16456203)

If you run Amavis you can add a MIME type to the $banned_filename_re in a conf file (on debian based derivatives you'll normally find that in /etc/amavis/conf.d/20-debian_defaults).

  qr'^application/amp+html$'i,

is what I use.

If you want to put it in a separate file (such as a local config file) then you can just

  push(@$banned_filename_re,qr'^application/amp+html$'i);

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Re:AMP: the missing controversy by rav on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:20AM (#16458028)

Isn't the plus sign a special character in Perl regexes? That is, wouldn't you need to use this instead:

    qr'^application/amp\+html$'i,

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Re:AMP: the missing controversy by tankenmate on Sunday February 25, 2018 @07:38AM (#16458619)

You're right, thanks!

I still forget sometimes the differences between BRE, SRE, and ERE (mostly due to vim defaulting one thing and perl the other).

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