text/html rendering (was Re: ancient perl versions)

[David F. Skoll]

Since most mail clients that send HTML mail also send a text/plain part with
similar content, my filter looks for messages with the structure:

        multipart/alternative
               text/plain
               text/html

and converts that little subtree to just:

        text/plain

There is occasionally some loss of information, but it works just
fine 99.9% of the time.  Certainly, it has worked for every
posting on this list.

Regards,

David.