*** 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.

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