Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:00:39 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: HTML Mail Filtering (Was Re: Teaching parents UNIX) Message-ID: <004101c193a6$a00fd190$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> 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>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Bob Hall" <rjhalljr@starpower.net>; "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 10:17 PM Subject: Re: Teaching parents UNIX > 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). If you *do* decide to use Procmail, the Email Sanitizer will do what you want. You can check it out at http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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