A few of the mailing lists I receive have recently contained lots of
messages from loser^H^H^H^H^H^H individuals who apparently use
Microsoft Mail or some other similar mail program. These messages will
contain a MIME attachment towards the end of the message, something
like this:
------ =_NextPart_000_01BB1736.819C5640
Content-Type: application/ms-tnef
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
eJ8+IjcTAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAENgAQAAgAAAAIAAgABBJAG
AEABAAABAAAADAAAAAMAADADAAAACwAPDgAAAAACAf8PAQAAAFMAAAAAAAAAgSsfpL6jEBmdbgDd
AQ9UAgAAAABUaGUgUXVhcmsgRXhwcmVzcyBMaXN0AFNNVFAAUVVBUktYUFJASVVCVk0uVUNTLklO
<... spare you the rest ... :->
The purpose of the attachment seems to be to transfer rich-text
features of the message to users of compatible reader programs (or
something vaguely like that).
What I was wondering is, has somebody written a Procmail filter to
zap these attachments from incoming mail? Not the whole message, just
remove the attachment? (Naturally, writing an external Perl filter
would be a snap, but I suppose it would be doable in Procmail itself?)
/* era */
Sure, I could get a MIME-savvy mail reader, but it still bothers me
that 50% of my precious quota should be filled with unreadable
garbage.
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