On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:34:35 -0500
Charlie Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (*sigh*) First AOL 6.0 is brain-dead enough not to PERMIT sending
> plain-text email, but now MSN Companion (those silly little web
> appliances) joins in.
Yes, this is sad. Happily AOL and MSN account for less than 5% of
my subscriber base, and around 1% of my posters so I've not had to
face this problem much. (Oddly enough two of the more active AOL
posters (ie just above lurkers) post straight text messages with no
HTML -- I haven't looked to see how they do this).
> Completely ignoring the argument that HTML email is or is not a
> bad thing, what are you folks doing about it? Accepting it as HTML
> email? Stripping the HTML (deMIME)?
Procmail filters which simply reject/bounce/silently delete any
inbound HTML messages seem the most common approach per discussions
in other forums. deMIME comes in a close second. There's also
MIMEfilter which looks interesting:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mimefilter/
> Rejecting it and copying the user's ISP if it's one of those who
> use propriatary systems to diosallow plain text? Having your users
> complain to their ISPs?
My default is to refuse to accept HTML mail, and reject it back to
the sender with a request to repost in text/plain. (I do the same
thing for those annoying people who put their new text at the top
and then quote the entire previous message below, who don't use
attribution lines on their quotes, who don't use leading quote
characters, etc) Its then up to the user to arrange a solution.
However, I'm about to move more mainstream with a couple lists, so
I'm digging into the area. I suspect I'll end up with something
based off MIMEfilter which auto-strips HTML and other attachments,
as well as adding a rant to the top of the first text/plain stating
wha was done to the message and why.
> Or am I the only one who gets ticked off by these Internet
> elephants telling me how I should accept email? Should I just lay
> off the espresso? ;)
Hardly.
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J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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