On August 17, 1998 at 15:12, Greg Monroe wrote:
Anyone got a good way of dealing with Netscape generated mail that has
text/x-vcard attachments (Virtual Card).
rm -f *
:-)
MHonArc's default setting add them to the message body as text which
displays as <tag>: value. Not too bad but it looks messy and users
ask about it. I know I could split them into attachment files, but I
don't want to deal with all the *.bin files. Is there any way to just
strip off this type of MIME attachment? Of has anyone written a MIME
handler to "pretty" them up?
I am considering it. I got the RFC for vCard. The annoying thing is
why good 'ol signatures are not sufficient. vCards I have seen from
people seem to provide no more info than traditional signatures, plus
they are uglier for people with MUAs that do not support them.
As for stripping attachments, I have provided a "null" filter
in v2.3 (in alpha release). It is just a bogus function that returns
a space character. You register it for media-types that you do
not want to appear in the archive. Note, the filter should work
for older versions of MHonArc, no v2.3isms. I have attached the
source to this message for those who need it but do not want to
download v2.3 alpha.
PS(Psychic Subscript): Earl's gonna say it's in 2.3....
It is not in the alpha release. I need to review the RFC to see to how
complicated vCards are and to figure out what is the best way to render
them. Right now I have been trying to get the documentation done.
If vCard support is straight-forward, it may show up in the v2.3
release (of course, I welcome any filter developed by someone else).
--ewh
##---------------------------------------------------------------------------##
## File:
## @(#) mhnull.pl 1.1 98/08/10 23:56:33
## Author:
## Earl Hood earlhood(_at_)usa(_dot_)net
## Description:
## Library defines the null filter routine for MHonArc. Its use
## is for dropping unwanted data from messages.
## Filter routine can be registered with the following:
## <MIMEFILTERS>
## some-type/some-subtype;m2h_null::filter;mhnull.pl
## </MIMEFILTERS>
##---------------------------------------------------------------------------##
## MHonArc -- Internet mail-to-HTML converter
## Copyright (C) 1998 Earl Hood, earlhood(_at_)usa(_dot_)net
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
## (at your option) any later version.
##
## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
## GNU General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
## Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
## 02111-1307, USA
##---------------------------------------------------------------------------##
package m2h_null;
sub filter {
" "; # Return a bogus space to denote success for readmail.pl
}
##---------------------------------------------------------------------------##
1;
