AW: plain text vs. html

From: vogt@hansenet.com
Date: 05/08/02


From: vogt@hansenet.com
To: joschy@mailbox.hu, focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:18:59 +0200 


> Is there any way to filter out html mails and "convert" them
> to plain text? As
> I see on my e-mail client (kmail), it does it really nice,
> but what I'm
> really looking for is doing it "on-the-fly" by sendmail for example.
>
> So technically it is possible, that's for sure, but is there
> any complete
> solutions/workarounds/scripts already working you know of?

you can easily build one yourself with procmail and filters such as
html2txt. but I guess the long-term solution is for MTAs to
have a "sanitize" filter (or at least plug for a plug-in) much like
firewalls do scrubbing or reassamble of fragments.



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