Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:10:12 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: "darko gavrilovic" <darko.listsniffer@gmail.com> Cc: alydiomc@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email disclaimer <insert; remove and instert> Message-ID: <991123400807291210q4f39ff24va21e22585e86b7cd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <82f3feb90807291119m11176a5dm980bc5652d71eea7@mail.gmail.com> References: <82f3feb90807282017k22053d4cof15798685d53cd69@mail.gmail.com> <765169.66920.qm@web52211.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <991123400807290413v1984f747wb3e8616c78764b@mail.gmail.com> <82f3feb90807291119m11176a5dm980bc5652d71eea7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:19 PM, darko gavrilovic <darko.listsniffer@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> > 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
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