Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:52:46 +0100 From: "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> To: "Warren Block" <wblock@wonkity.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail filters Message-ID: <OE70Cu2Wg0V261ZAbhR0000606f@hotmail.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212191910480.61288-100000@wonkity.com>
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*** There's nothing wrong with reinventing procmail like this, but I'm curious why you consider it "bloated"--it's under 64K on my system. *** Bloated in the sense of complexity. My script is one file; I install it by changing one line in /etc/mail/aliases. Procmail cannot compete with that. I notice that all software tends to bloat over time. When I see a Web site that has a search engine just to search the FAQs, I know that there is a problem. It's actually much easier for me to write something and install it than it would be to spends days or weeks trying to install someone else's bloated software. I'm sure something like Procmail has its place for enormously complicated situations that require enormously complicated solutions, but what I want to do is not in that category. Incidentally, I've managed to get my script to drop HTML from messages generated by Outlook Express. Now I'm just trying to handle the more general case of messages that are entirely in HTML: I want to change the HTML to plain text and then delete all the tags, leaving only whatever essential text remains. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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