-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simone Riccio wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:25:07AM +0100 : > :D drastic but it makes sense! as u can see in my signature (it's > written in italian though) i tell people not to send me html mail... :D > my friends complain a lot, but someday will understand...
You guys can all make it easy on yourself by installing demime and making your inbound mail all pipe through it. It does two things really well: 1) if incoming mail has multiple mime attachments, it takes the text/plain type and converts it to a non-mime email and strips all other attachments (this includes gifs, mp3's, mime pgp sigs, etc). 2) if incoming mail is mime and only has a text/html type, it will convert it to a plain text non-mime email. It REALLY is a great program and works seamlessly for you, the end recipient. http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html Now there's a certain amount of logic to "if someone sends me html, I probably don't want it" too. I am on a lot of technical lists. Sign #1 that the person is not technical enough to be on the list is that the email is in html. It's not a 1:1 relationship, but it's very close. This list on the other hand, doesn't quite fall into that category. It involves people asking for help. Many times, it is people who are not yet technical, but are striving to get there. So a _little_ slack should be extended. Personally, I use mutt and have it set to automatically pipe html mail through lynx so that I can read it. It involves two lines (one in .muttrc and one in ~/.mailcap) worth of configuration and works well. I do see a lot more crap than I used to, but I'm also seeing a few things that I want to. Just some rambling thoughts. Hope everybody has a great weekend. Blue skies... todd - -- MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. --Larry Wall Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21pre4-10mdk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+X61Mlp7v05cW2woRAqhwAJ0YaHEl6p3pGJahfKkRndI771Z9+wCfU7E9 QerjnPttYeuzQsp1YWMssfI= =mHGa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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