Re: Stripping HtML and/or MIME-encoded messages?

From: Jeff Foy (bg809@scn.org)
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 13:50:07 -0800

In article <199912092004.MAA24762@ shell1.ncal.verio.com>,
Howard Schwartz <theo@ncal.verio.com> wrote:
>
>It is probably not wise to automatically delete ALL MIME-encoded messages
>since some mailers introduce plain text as MIME-encoded, and you might
>want a friend on occasion to send you a picture, or a binary program
>in the mail.

The people who e-mail me know that I don't accept binaries in
e-mail ever. I just delete them outright and don't respond to the
message(s).

>similar program automatically skip the DISPLAY on the screen of a
>particular type of MIME message:

Actually, the MIME messages don't bother me all that much. It's
really those HTML-ified messages that drive me nutty.

>If you want html or other parts of messages actually deleted from your

I don't want the html parts of messages deleted. I want the
WHOLE message deleted if it has *any* HTML tags in it. There isn't any
reason for that HTML stuff in messages and I'd prefer not to have to
bother with them at all.

I suspect I'm going to have to roll my own solution until (or
unless) Chin decides to release the source to Yarn. But thanks for your
replies. I appreciate them.