Alas! Simon White spake thus: > Well just as an aside Incredimail marketing claims "Email has evolved" on > its website, or something equally high power marketing toss to go with the > eyecandy approach to email.
Yeah, as far as I can tell all those stupid X- headers are some kind of
"preferences" that tell Incredimail how to display the message (sort of
like OE stationary, except that it doesn't send (as much of) the
stationary as OE does).
> I also hate that it encodes CRLF in email sent as HTML (albeit
> multipart formatted) which shows up as CTRL-M in mutt, and I can't
> force people to fix plain text sending if they are already someone who
> is actually /pleased/ to show me this great new email client they have
> just installed.
Interesting. I am in a similar situation - my ISP's mail server is some
broken legacy OS that is terminating _all_ the lines on _every_ email
that passes through with CRLF's.
Fortunately, I download my mail with fetchmail, and it can be configured
to strip the cr's for you, which is a godsend for me.
> So, since I'm hopeless with encoding, can someone tell me if I can filter
> these people's mail in the pager so I don't have to keep asking them to
> plaintext?
Well, look into fetchmail. If you can't/won't use fetchmail, use a perl
script that searches through a file and strips out all the ^M's... ;)
It would be a pretty simple script. Here's a snippet:
while (<STDIN>)
{
s/^M//g;
print;
}
(of course, replace ^M with the actual character).
--
Rob 'Feztaa' Park
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As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" -- probably because it's
so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
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