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

From: Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters (quilty@ibm.net)
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 22:59:32 -0500

bg809@scn.org (Jeff Foy) wrote:
|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.

If this is *really* what you want, you should be able to do it with the
FILTER program. One filter option is to examine the body of messages.
You could check for the presence of '<BODY>'... or the presence of MIME
section headers, and delete matching messages.

Such a plan would be too draconian for my tastes... but it would do what
you describe.

|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).

I am curious about this part. Not all binaries are that evil, IMO. I
would certainly understand reservations about running attached EXE's...
but pictures or things like PDFs have a legitimate place in my
worldview.

I agree about the annoyance of HTML mail though.

Yours, Lulu...

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