From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 1 22:17: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E082A37B417 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 22:17:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g026H0V86880; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 07:17:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <042f01c19355$1724de80$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Bob Hall" , "FreeBSD-Questions" References: <20011230170851.U64198-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> <00be01c19183$9c782f70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011231084155.GB2016@rhadamanth> <01e001c191dd$f99f6f60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020101144511.A777@starpower.net> Subject: Re: Teaching parents UNIX Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 07:17:00 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bob writes: > It has occurred to me that I could set up a > filter that automatically discarded any e-mail > containing HTML tags and the only thing I would > lose would be spam. This same idea has occurred to me, but I've been too lazy to pursue it thus far. Almost nothing I receive is in HTML, except spam and the occasional message from a clueless AOL user. Unfortunately, Outlook Express provides no way of deleting HTML e-mail, so I was trying to think of a way to filter it out on my server. I was thinking that maybe a small Perl program to receive all messages and strip out HTML content would work. I know there are tools like procmail about, but they seem like overkill for such a simple function, and I'm not sure tha they'd do what I want (I'm probably more interested in just removing HTML content than in actually deleting an entire message). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message