From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 19:10:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36AEE106566C for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:10:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE4A8FC17 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:10:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so9048ywe.13 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:10:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=sjb5DKEWHrpmALzT9+Ml8tdQeH8Tyd3udWKvrhnICU0=; b=w1SOVNUqLYvsiQ8pM1JxdeLJ2hwS4IlgVQ+UO/W2m89hIOlJlJhTaiilQWKMEmaE3a 1hszZ7I7ydqTj5ifUF326zh+tGkkyMBs+wBXBLrXrHOVyX0buk2MNmICGgSm6ALpKfZ4 LGQoto/h2KpsZhRUwhdIoEaWbfaIiuiZb1piI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=p8zzajm0lkzecvueTtvn+ARaAcgHwaDY9nkq+LtZA/KdlWjkPpByIJjhmiSuSNEAYD zHKm7CouSubt3cKk2pq6bXT2vF1+064YO5PknLjjqOlTlIeB+4KJrBXLGKRsQf5tJvgv JLryCuLziv1AxO4GyALo7kMGndZhvadAEPeX4= Received: by 10.140.139.3 with SMTP id m3mr2192468rvd.44.1217358612279; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.153.18 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <991123400807291210q4f39ff24va21e22585e86b7cd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:10:12 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" To: "darko gavrilovic" In-Reply-To: <82f3feb90807291119m11176a5dm980bc5652d71eea7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <82f3feb90807282017k22053d4cof15798685d53cd69@mail.gmail.com> <765169.66920.qm@web52211.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <991123400807290413v1984f747wb3e8616c78764b@mail.gmail.com> <82f3feb90807291119m11176a5dm980bc5652d71eea7@mail.gmail.com> Cc: alydiomc@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email disclaimer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:10:14 -0000 On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:19 PM, darko gavrilovic wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Odhiambo Washington > wrote: >> >> I can tell you it is "impossible". Why? >> While you can actually write a script to try to do it, you'll more >> likely end up breaking the e-mail format, because it will not be too >> easy to rightly guess the content-type/boundaries in replies. >> Well, take a look at procmail, with a client like mutt... you can do >> fancy things, but not the type you want! > > You won't know if it's impossible until you try it and fail repeatedly and > grow some gray hairs from the experience. :-) Not growing grey hair, but losing all that you have, even! > But back to topic, I can see something like this being scriptable. It might > wind up being one of those scripts that only works on one mail client which > has been configured to display email in a particular way -- but seems like > it could be done. If it was, it could have been done already.right now? There are reasons why this cannot be done easily: 1. E-mail disclaimers are considered stupid 2. It's not easy to mangle all types the same of mail as composition (mime type boundaries/content disposition) is always different. Hey, but who says you cannot do it? Let's see what you come up with :-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post