Script to Remove HTML Code in Email ??

[nos...@notreal.com]

Is there anyone here that knows of a program or script that you can run
periodically with cron that will remove the all the HTML formatting code
in a users incoming mail file located in /var/spool/mail?

[Robert Bonomi]

A) 'cron' is the wrong way to attack the problem. Use a procmail recipe
to detect HTML-formatted messages as received, and process them
at the time they are received.

B) There is a program called "demime" that will 'do the right thing'
for HTML messages -- if the message is multipart/alternative, it
will discard the 'text/html' part in favor of the 'text/plain' part;
if there is -only- an HTML component, it uses the 'lynx' web browser,
in non-interactive mode, to 'render' the incoming message into formatted
_plain-text_ and saves *that* in the user's inbox.

I have used demime -- invoked from procmail -- for this purpose, for years.

[Kees Theunissen]

Yes, this really should be done when a message arrives.
And if wou want to clean up your existing mail file(s) then 'formail'
can be used to split mail files in separate messages and pipe
those trough a process as described above.
'formail' is part of the procmail package. Look at its '-s' option.


Regards,

Kees.

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Kees Theunissen.