[Gllug] HTML mail

[Simon Stewart]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:22:42PM +0000, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
> >At the risk of receiving verbal abuse, I thought I would treat you all to
> >an example just received of why indiscriminate HTML email is a PAIN IN THE
> >A*SE!
> >
> > [...]
> >
> ><STYLE type=text/css>
> ><!--
> 
> Yeah, but at least they managed to comment out their style sheets.
> 
> When Outlook sends HTML mail, it doesn't manage to do that, so my
> HTML-aware but style-ignorant MUA gets to show me 3 pages of crappy
> MS style sheets :-(
> 
> What I really want is a procmail rule that'll drop the HTML content
> from multipart/alternative messages that have both text and HTML,
> but leave the HTML there if it's the only option. If someone has
> already concocted such a thing, it'd save me the effort of having
> to try and figure it out for myself...

How's this?

:0
* ^Content-Type: text/html
{
        :0bfW
        | (echo "[html stripped]"; lynx -dump -force_html /dev/fd/0)

        :0ahfw
        | formail -i"Content-Type: text/plain"
}


Cheers,

Simon

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