Angel M Alganza wrote: > Hello: > > I keep a few mailbox folders containing a large amount of multipart mail > with a text/plain part and a text/html part, which I would like to > eliminate in order to reduce the amount of disk space used (for a small > device and mainly the IMAP server I keep synced with). > > I've been looking for ways to remove the text/html part with tools like > imapfilter or mbsync/isync that I use to manipulat, sort and > syncronised, but I haven't had any succeed. I can eliminate it by hand > with Mutt, but that'd be really tedious, since I have thousands of mail. > > Is there an automated way that you know of to get that done? Or do you > know of any third party program that could help me out? > > Thank you very much in advance for your help. > > Regards, > Ángel
Hi Ángel, I wrote a tool for replacing non-text attachments in email with text versions. It's at http://raf.org/textmail. By default, it replaces HTML attachments with inline plain text attachments that contain just the text within the original document. It also reduces text-versus-html alternative attachments to just the text part. It needs lynx to be installed. If that's the only transformation you want, you'll need to supply lots of options to prevent other default actions. Something like this: textmail -MWERPULIAVXBS That suppresses translating and deleting anything else, just HTML. You can use it in a procmail recipe or apply it to mbox files. WARNING: Please verify it carefully and make sure it's doing what you want before deleting the original mailboxes. Anything that transforms your email should not be trusted until you have reason to trust it. cheers, raf
