[WBEL-users] html email in whitebox list

[Nats]

Well in here, i just strip off HTML based emails from the server itself,
dont want those stylish email clients running on windows just wasting
resources on my machines.  Just a hint, if you want to get rid of those
pesky incoming and outgoing HTML emails, try using MailScanner, it help me
alot in here, it works on your existing spamassassin and works on some
anti-virus programs (i used sophos, which captures hidden viruses on both
attachments and html format).
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirby Bohling" <kbohling@birddog.com>
To: "Jan-Albert van Ree" <javanree@vanree.net>
Cc: <whitebox-users@beau.org>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] html email in whitebox list


> On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 06:13:53PM +0200, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> > On Saturday 31 July 2004 04:46, Daniel J. Summers wrote:
> >
> > > I doubt you'll offend anyone with your request.  You make not get
> > > compliance either.  ;)  For me, it takes some remembering to go up and
> > > switch that "HTML" setting to "Plain Text" when I'm dealing with a
> > > mailing list.  It's easy in newsgroups, because I tell it to use plain
> > > text for everything there.
> > > I like using HTML mail, personally.  (Besides, my sig block probably
> > > looks like crap in plain text...)  I know there are people who are
> > > rabidly opposed to it, and I find it really ironic that they're
usually
> > > really smart folks.  Heck, if you're smart enough to get Linux
going...  :)
> >
> > Nothing to do with "smart" but some people (like me) sometimes are
"stuck"
> > using the console or just prefer a console-based mail app such as elm,
mutt
> > or pine. Not sure about pine, but elm and mutt are terrible at handling
HTML
> > so it simply makes our life more difficult.
> >
> > For me it's gotten to a point where I'm seriously considering having
procmail
> > delete all email that's in HTML. Anybody here any experience with that?
>
> Jan,
>
> If you really want to strip all HTML, you might look into
> writting a perl script that uses the MIME perl tools.  Mimedefang
> uses them, in fact, I'll bet you could configure MimeDefang to strip
> all HTML attachments, and kill all HTML-only e-mail.  It's my
> understanding that MimeDefang uses the sendmail milter interface
> now, but I believe you can insert it with a custom configuration
> into your procmail scripts.
>
> <my personal views>
> I use mutt, it has two useful features, I use it even in a GUI
> environment, because I've found that it's superior to everything
> else in terms of machine resources vs. usefulness.  If I had to use
> a GUI one, I'd highly recommend Evolution but it eats memory like
> crazy.
>
> First using this directive in my .muttrc:
>
> alternative_order text/enriched text/plain text/html
>
> So as long as they include both the HTML and plain-text versions
> you can view plain text.  I'm well aware that some people don't like
> the wasted bandwidth and storage.  You can strip the HTML version
> out, but it's still a bandwidth waster at that point.  However, I
> don't see that as a problem (I live in the U.S. with non-metered
> broadband, it's my understanding that in other areas, those extra
> bytes can add up to real money).
>
> Second:
>
> You can pipe anything thru a filter.  There are several
> filtering programs out there that strip well known signatures
> (Yahoo, HotMail, etc.).  Presumable, there is a program out there
> that can take HTML on standard in and output non-HTML on standard
> out.   I'd be nearly shocked if someone hasn't written such a beast
> for use with Mutt.  If nothing else, you can probably pipe it into
> w3m, links, or lynx, all of which allow viewing of HTML e-mail.
>
> Given that I don't need it, I can't vouch for them, but this site
> looks relatively useful (specifically, the "Plain text and setext"
> section):
>
> http://www.w3.org/Tools/html2things.html
> </my personal views>
>
> Thanks,
> Kirby
>
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