From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 2 6: 8: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.worldgatein.com (ns2.worldgatein.com [203.109.64.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560AD37B41B for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 06:08:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from rivendell.worldgatein.net (interoffice.worldgatein.net [203.109.64.31]) by ns2.worldgatein.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9036BDF4; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:36:29 +0530 (IST) Received: by rivendell.worldgatein.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F139E32609; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:40:44 +0530 (IST) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:40:44 +0530 From: Devdas Bhagat To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Bob Hall , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Teaching parents UNIX Message-ID: <20020102204044.B569@rivendell.worldgatein.net> Reply-To: Devdas Bhagat References: <20011230170851.U64198-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> <00be01c19183$9c782f70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011231084155.GB2016@rhadamanth> <01e001c191dd$f99f6f60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020101144511.A777@starpower.net> <042f01c19355$1724de80$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <042f01c19355$1724de80$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:17:00AM +0100 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 On 02/01/02 07:17 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > 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 Don't reinvent the wheel. demime and associates work very well. (full details on demime in the mailman archives -- its a FAQ there). Devdas Bhagat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message