Rejo Zenger wrote: > ++ 20/01/14 21:40 +0100 - Jan-Herbert Damm: > >i would like to send an automatic answer to html-mails sent to me (because > >i'm > >tired of writing back that i prefer plain-text). > > > >I am aware that this is hardly an issue of mutt, but rather procmail > >or scripting. But i am curious how this could be approached. > > Procmail would suffice and definately for a rudimentary filter: > > :0 > * ^Content-type: text/html > * ! ^X-Loop: autoreply_because_html > | (formail -rt \ > -A"Precedence: junk" \ > -A"X-Loop: autoreply_because_html" ; \ > cat $HOME/body_of_autoreply.txt) | $SENDMAIL -t > > Or something along those lines. Untested. > > Procmail has lots of example in the procmailex manpage as well as on the > internet. > > -- > Rejo Zenger . <r...@zenger.nl> . 0x21DBEFD4 . <https://rejo.zenger.nl> > GPG encrypted e-mail preferred . +31.6.39642738 . @rejozenger
this recipe will also fire on emails that contain a multipart/alternative part containing plain text and html alternatives and so would not be ideal as mutt will hapily display the text alternative. i expect that distinguishing such emails from ones that only contain html would take more effort in procmail-land. better ask a procmail expert. an alternative is to use procmail and textmail to automatically convert html emails into plain text on their way into your inbox. the following procmail recipe just translates html emails into plain text. :0 fw | textmail -WERPULIAVXBS it's probably wiser for the recipe to put a copy of the original email somewhere first. textmail is available from http://raf.org/textmail/ and it'll need perl and mktemp and lynx to be installed (and other things if you use its other features). cheers, raf
