Timothy J Luoma writes on 7 October 1997 at 22:56:51
Author: Wotan <wotan(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com>
Original-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 19:28:38 -0700 (MST)
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Various "some_program_to_strip_html" have recently been posted to this
list and are really off the topic of procmail proper.
Are they?
[snip]
And the only difference to me between asking how to strip long sigs from
mail and how to strip html is the programs required.
I'd agree with that.
procmail is a tool for processing mail. (ie 'man procmail': " procmail -
autonomous mail processor")
This discussion would be off-topic for the pine-list, which is a
mail-reader, but not for a mail processor.
But this list is about *procmail* not mail-processing in general,
which could include things like "filter", Perl-based mail-processing
or even Lotus Script agents that run on incoming mail in Lotus Notes.
One very useful tool recently was detecting HTML in the body where there was
no corrent MIME-type for HTML in the headers. This is one of the
more-common ways of sending SPAM.
Just as "procmail" isn't the appropriate place for most SmartList
questions (even though that's a mailing-list package written almost
entirely in procmail), neither is it the appropriate place for
discussing general SPAM issue.
Of course there is going to be some overlap as complex SPAM-catching
heurisitcs can result in interesting procmail tricks and techniques.
Returning to the original thread of this message, if
"some_program_to_strip_html" didn't work as a standard UNIX filter
some_program_to_strip_html file.html [another.txt]
(reads file.html, writes to file.txt or another.txt if specified)
it once again is a procmail issue as to how to use this program to
strip HTML.
Dan
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