On or about 12-06-03 11:17 PM, Dan Warne wrote: > on 7/12/03 2:53 PM, Gary Lists at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have safely and joyously deleted all incoming HTML email for years -- >> thanks to Entourage's rules. (Well, honestly, from mail lists any HTML is >> stripped by rule+script, so I do get a plain Jane version from the few >> weirdos who send HTML mail to mailing lists.) > > Really? I too delete all HTML email using that lovely Entourage rule (only > recently have spammers wised up to the fact that plain text mail is more > likely to get through). > > How do you do that stripping of HTML from email that you -do- want to read?
I use 'Remove HTML' by Allen Watson. Mine is the E2K1 version, located here: <http://homepage.mac.com/allen_a_watson/.cv/allen_a_watson/Public/Scripts/En tourage%20Scripts/Edit%20Text/Remove%20HTML.sit-link.sit> There is not a same-named version in the EX folder at Allen's site, but I do see a script named 'Strip HTML', which likely is the X equivalent. That is here: <http://homepage.mac.com/allen_a_watson/.cv/allen_a_watson/Public/Scripts/En tourage%20v%20X/Strip%20HTML%5CcomH.bin-link.bin> My version dates back to OE5, and I've added a few this-its and whose-its (just a few), and I've also used improved knowledge with spam-trap rules (offered in this list, mostly...I have a set called 'Mickey S' from hints he's made me aware of). > whereas legitimate email clients always > have a plain text equivalent of the HTML > for recipients who can't read the HTML. Well, perhaps not _always_. Once again I refer to my lovable and wonderful and clueless aunties who use "whatever it has when you turn it on" (read: MSWin ;), which usually means they couldn't tell a preference pane from a gas pain. They just think that "email" has buttons marked [B] [I] [U] and you can use any (and as many) crazy fonts as you want and that's that. I have had to ask and re-ask and then beg some of them to make slight changes to this check box or that. It's also often that legitimate mail from friends, either traveling or otherwise PC-less, who use Hotmail (or my Yahooligan-niece) and the preferences there can also be set to include a text-only version, but I think that is an opt-in preference rather than an opt-out in both cases. Which makes sense, of course, because it's web based and because it's an ad medium. But, I do take your meaning Dan (and agree) that _most_ habitual senders of HTML mail, for whatever reason, tend also to be either aware enough or approachable enough to get a text-only version tacked on. > Unfortunately I don't -think- the above level of intelligence can be used in > a rule in Entourage (though I admit I haven't looked into it very deeply at > all - perhaps a custom header filter might work). If you mean the intelligence of stripping HTML, then it can -- at least to the degree that current spamology allows, or as fast as your message source parsing code can be. There are, admittedly, a few times when a I get a list message that is displayed in Comic Sans at a size that must be 6 points. There are other cases (rare) when I get a "legitimate" message (i.e., known source) that gets "stripped" (does not render HTML) but _does_ display the HT markup itself. I have not had enough problem to worry whether it's a fluked rule or combination of header/encoding/etc that keeps the AppleScript and Entourage from getting it exactly right. The one area where I found I had to strategize with rules and lists is when to check "Do not apply rules to list messages" in the Mailing List Manager (MLM) for a particular list. For some lists I keep that checked, for some I don't. > Cheers > Dan As well, -- Gary -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
