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From: Ansgar Wiechers on 20 May 2010 03:31 On 2010-05-20 Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 05/19/2010 10:30 PM, Alex wrote: >> Is it possible to strip the entire HTML content and pass only the >> text? Perhaps the right way to say it would be to pass only the MIME >> text and strip everything else? > > I found this fantastic little util called "mailtextbody" - it does > just that: strips off all non-text parts and leaves a clean, > text-only message. Sounds interesting, but how does it handle html-only mails (i.e. mails with no text/plain MIME part) or mails that are declared text/plain, but contain HTML nonetheless? Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning." --Joel Spolsky
From: Jeroen Geilman on 21 May 2010 15:33 On 05/20/2010 09:31 AM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: > On 2010-05-20 Jeroen Geilman wrote: > >> On 05/19/2010 10:30 PM, Alex wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to strip the entire HTML content and pass only the >>> text? Perhaps the right way to say it would be to pass only the MIME >>> text and strip everything else? >>> >> I found this fantastic little util called "mailtextbody" - it does >> just that: strips off all non-text parts and leaves a clean, >> text-only message. >> > Sounds interesting, but how does it handle html-only mails (i.e. mails > with no text/plain MIME part) or mails that are declared text/plain, but > contain HTML nonetheless? > > Regards > Ansgar Wiechers > Good point ;) Mail that does not contain a text-only representation of the content may safely be dropped, since it violates the RFCs. Malformed messages (yes, I'm looking at you M$ Outhouse) are anotehr matter, and will almost always cause problems - anywhere. I'm not saying "use this, it's foolproof". I am saying I found it, it does what it advertises, it's simple, and a lot less hassle to configure and maintain than the various MIME* solutions. One possible application (one we use it for, incidentally) would be to strip out the mailtextbody and send it over a smaller medium, such as SMS or Twitter, and keep the original mail separately. YMMV Gr., J.
From: Victor Duchovni on 21 May 2010 15:45
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:33:51PM +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > Mail that does not contain a text-only representation of the content may > safely be dropped, since it violates the RFCs. This is false. No RFC requires a text/plain message body. -- Viktor. P.S. Morgan Stanley is looking for a New York City based, Senior Unix system/email administrator to architect and sustain our perimeter email environment. If you are interested, please drop me a note. |