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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:00:39 -0800
From:      "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To:        "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   HTML Mail Filtering (Was Re: Teaching parents UNIX)
Message-ID:  <004101c193a6$a00fd190$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To: "Bob Hall" <rjhalljr@starpower.net>; "FreeBSD-Questions"
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: Teaching parents UNIX


> Bob writes:
>
> > It has occurred to me that I could set up a
> > filter that automatically discarded any e-mail
> > containing HTML tags and the only thing I would
> > lose would be spam.
>
> This same idea has occurred to me, but I've been too lazy to pursue it
thus
> far.  Almost nothing I receive is in HTML, except spam and the
occasional
> message from a clueless AOL user.  Unfortunately, Outlook Express
provides
> no way of deleting HTML e-mail, so I was trying to think of a way to
filter
> it out on my server.  I was thinking that maybe a small Perl program
to
> receive all messages and strip out HTML content would work.  I know
there
> are tools like procmail about, but they seem like overkill for such a
simple
> function, and I'm not sure tha they'd do what I want (I'm probably
more
> interested in just removing HTML content than in actually deleting an
entire
> message).

If you *do* decide to use Procmail, the Email Sanitizer will do what you
want.  You can check it out at
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html.

Drew


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