On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:55:46PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here is the thought that struck me: could I in principle write a script > > to take such void plus html messages, strip the tags (replacing URLs > > when the href text doesn't have it) and write the bare text back into > > the source email so that I can see it? The html attachment could be left > > in place or discarded, it usually won't matter which. Or would this > > mess up the IMAP or Maildir indexing in some way? > > I fail to see why you couldn't write a filter (using maildrop or > procmail) to pipe the message through w3m -dump (or links -dump) before > storing the message.
Thanks John. That seems to be the definitively best way to go. I just have to work out how to reliably identify or flag the offending messages for treatment. > > Also, IMAP won't care if you change the message. You just upload the > message as a new message. I do it all the time with I add labels etc. It will be better if I leave the headers alone, so that threading doesn't get broken. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
