At 11:36 2003-10-21 -0500, Chris Barnes wrote:
Richard Ibbotson <richard(_at_)sheflug(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
> I'd like to use Procmail to delete HTML mail to /dev/null on my own
> workstation. I think that means to put something in /etc/procmail.
> Can anyone describe a procmail recipe that can do this for me ?
I think you ought to reconsider this. If I did it, I would loose all
email messages from my daughters, my mother, and about 1/2 of my non-IT
industry friends.
Sound like just the fix for a corporate mail server ('cept that many
corporate mail clients send in HTML or some hair-brained proprietary format
by default).
It's trivial to invoke a scrubber from procmail. Search for "stripmime" on
the web and in the list archives (which are linked from the procmail
website). Modify the perl script as necessary, and you're in business.
I use the characteristic of an HTML message without a text/plain multipart
as a strong indicator of spam - legit mail client software should be
sending a plaintext copy of a message along with the HTML one -- if not,
you're probably looking at spam, or an HTML-only mailing list messages
(which some lists are guilty of, but in my case, I have an elevated
allowance for recognized discussion lists).
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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