On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Tom Neff wrote:
> > I also have a big problem with people mostly LookOut users,
> > (or is that OutLook?) who insist they are not sending HTML
> > format tags and thousands of nbsp's...
[snip]
> What we need is a plain text control just above the SMTP/Sendmail level. By
> control I mean three settings: [1] accept everything and deliver it as
> received, [2] accept everything but deliver only the plain text portion, [3]
> actively refuse (bounce with an error message) anything with a non text
> component. Putting it into Sendmail itself would really give it some teeth.
Well, at least for the purposes of mailing lists, it is feasible to plug
in various filters before the list delivery. I know of at least one or
two that have been written by list members; my own NORM (which is
basically just Listar's MIME support stripped out and made standalone for
someone who wanted that), the 'demime' that someone else wrote, etc.
I don't know about demime, but one of the things that NORM does is examine
multipart/alternative and look for text/plain. If it finds it, it uses
just that. If the message itself is in HTML, it renders it a'la Lynx and
uses that plaintext rendition instead.
Also, mailing list software itself is starting to support things like
that; it's built into Listar, if you choose to enable the 'humanize-html'
option.
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