On 2012-11-27, mutt wrote: > Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Does anyone have or know of a perl or python script, or even a shell > > script, that removes the multipart/(mixed|alternative| ... ) parts of > > incoming mail and leaves or converts the message into plain text? > > Also, i wouldn't want to lose any attachments that people might send me. > > > > Jamie. > > hi, > > i wrote something like that. by default, it converts to text anything > that can be converted to text and deletes everything else but you > can turn off any specific transformation. it can delete specific > mail headers. it translates (most) winmail.dat attachments. if a > transformation fails, it leaves the original in place for safety by > default. it works via procmail on individual messages or it can be > applied to an entire mbox file. > > it requires the presence of various utilities (e.g. perl, antiword > or catdoc, xls2csv, lynx, pdftotext and mktemp). you'd probably just > need lynx and mktemp installed.
Why aren't you all using mutt's built-in ability to select MIME-type-to-text converters? There's no risk of losing a message through improper conversion, you have some limited choice over conversion methods (depending on whether the message/attachment is displayed by the pager or via the attachment menu), and since the message itself is unaffected, you can use different methods of viewing messages in different environments and at different times as your methods improve. Regards, Gary
