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Re: [OT] More mail filter questions



On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:53:30AM -0600, Corey Halpin wrote:
>   Ok, it's become a mission now.
>   Before I leave .edu, I want to a) find a beer that I like, and b) have a set 
> of procmail filters such that I don't get any ugly stupid email.
>   I'd welcome pointers for both.  :-)
>
>   More to the point,
>   I'd like to know how to set up procmail filters that:
>   1. detect MIME and will:
>     a. if it contains [text/html] and [text/plain] strip the [text/html]
>     b. if it contains only one part, strip the MIME, and set the content-type 
> accordingly.
> 
>   After that, I'm set.
> 
>   I've been digging around on google looking for hints as to how to do this 
> (it shouldn't be _that_ hard, should it?), but I can't find anything.  So, I 
> ask here, because there are many many people in here smarter than me.

a) Easy, Guinness and Stella  :-)

b) Not so easy. have you seen http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net ?
specifically:
http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/pm-tips-body.html#getting_rid_of_unwanted_mime

and Timo's recipes are always of use, although he seems to have left out your 
problem, but heres the link anyway: http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html

hope that helps.

Alan



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