On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 03:47:34PM -0400, Charlie Summers wrote:
> At 1:53 PM -0400 8/13/01, Tom Neff is rumored to have typed:
>
> > just one Perl process
> > per inbound mail.
>
> With bunches of inbound mail, there are bunches of perl processes, QED.
> Which, I maintain, are inefficient and at this time unnecessary.
I had this problem with overhead on our machines, so I wrote a
simplified version in C. I posted it to this list some time ago,
but it can be found at ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/unhtml.c.
This only handles multipart/mixed files and extracts the text/plain
portion from them, so pure text/html messages will remain untouched.
Since multipart/mixed still accounts for the vast majority of HTML
traffic (thank god for small favors) it works pretty well. At some
point I'll write some code to do simplistic HTML rendering.
> > Some of us can rail against the tide if we want,
>
> I'm sorry...did I "rail" against anything,
Charlie, do you ever do anything else? :-)
