text/html email question

[Steve Holmes]

Yes, you're going down the right track.  I know that Exim also
supports a pip facility so the mail could be passed freely through
another process via a pipe.  That secondary process would do the
conversion.  You'd have to identify and isolate the HTML portion or
attachment and then run that through lynx -dump or similar process.
The part that sounds most chalenging to me would be parsing the
message properly.

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:11:52PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> I've had this working both for HTML messages and for Microsoft Word
> files via wvware. I've not succeeded getting it to work on PDF yet, but
> I've run into another issue that I have been meaning to ask about on the
> list.
> 
> The other issue is simply this: I'm getting sick and tired of hearing
> all those messages about how the mail is getting converted from whatever
> to plain text. And, I'm getting tired of waiting for the conversion.
> Usually, this isn't that big of a deal for a message or two, I suppose, but a few seconds
> here and a few seconds there add up over a day with a couple hundred
> emails in it.
> 
> It seems to me it would be really cool to do the conversion before the
> mail is dropped into the inbox. I suppose the ideal would be to have
> plain text mime'd above the originals, in case there was a need to do
> something with the original format.
> 
> Has anyone else thought about how to do this? I suppose it would be a
> job for procmail, or some such. But one would have to deal with mime,
> too.
> 
> I suppose I'm not in a place to work on this very much just now, but I
> do want to move on it little by little.

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