On 10/17/18 2:38 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 02:12:37PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 14:48:52 -0400,
>>   "tonynel...@georgeanelson.com" <tonynel...@georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>>>> ... For html only messages you would either need to reject them or rewrite 
>>>> them, both of which have issues.
>>> I've used elinks to do that in an email forum I wrote. It worked better 
>>> than doing it with, say, Beautiful Soup.
>>
>> That is a big risk on your list serve processor. I would want to use 
>> something 
>> a lot safer than elinks (or lynx) to parse unsolicited email messages. What 
>> I 
>> do at work is use a simple perl script, but it doesn't do a great job.
> 
> I use a perl script with these modules and some regexps to clean up
> the result:
> 
> use HTML::Strip; use HTML::LinkExtor; use HTML::Entities
> qw/decode_entities/; use URI::Escape qw/uri_unescape/;
> _______________________________________________

Is this Perl script available somewhere?  I'm interested in having
something better than elinks for the times I read HTML mail in Mutt.

Thanks,
-Mat

-- 
Mátyás (Mat) Selmeci
Open Science Grid Software Team / Center for High-Throughput Computing
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences
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