On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > I've been thinking about writing a Perl filter to strip out HTML from > email. Was gonna just delete from <html> to </html>, but then saw that > Fingerhut embeds the plain text version into an HTML comment. I wonder > if there are any other mutations... Procmail is your friend:) I used to bounce email with 'text/html' as the Content-type, but that too became a nuisance. Now I just file such stuff directly to /dev/null. (Logic: if someone is clueless enough to send email in HTML, I have no need to waste my time reading it.) However, most of the so-called HTML email seems to be of the multipart/ alternative type. Configuring a MIME-aware reader to show me the text/plain version suffices (I delete the remainder.) The *problem* is the rash of "new" software that seems all too eager to ram the HTML part down your throat. The solution is to get competent software. (I'm about 90% convinced that I should procmail 'X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express' to /dev/null too.) ArjunReceived on Monday, 6 December 1999 17:33:27 GMT
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