On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:50:57AM -0500, Frank Sweetser wrote:
- Aside from the whole "email is TEXT goddamnit" argument (which I happen to agree with) have you seen some of the sludge that some of these mailreaders generate and label as HTML?
Here here! I used to just bounce HTML-only messages with a "polite" note explaining that the sender's mail program was misconfigured, and I left the text/html alternate mails (the "proper" way to send HTML email) alone. Then I found a script from Randal Schwartz which filters the alternate mails and strips out the HTML section. So I still can read the message, but my system doesn't have to bother storing that HTML section that I won't be using. I then changed my bounce procmail recipe to use a new script I wrote (based on Randal's code) that replaces the HTML-only email contents with a text-ified version spit out of lynx. If you're interested in these scripts (and some tips on filtering out spam...,) you can find it all at: http://www.kluge.net/mailfiltering/ :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Fact: There are n+1 zucchinis in the universe.