On 4/23/2008 3:05 PM, Xavier Maillard wrote:
Do you know any easy way to just trash redundant HTML part of emails from
gmail.com (for example) ?
Is there any way to extend this to a more "general" way to delete unwanted MIME
parts ?
When I used to have more free time :-/ I'd use a script named "mhedit"
that would open my favorite text editor (which, for political reasons, I
won't name :) on the entire message. Because I'm comfortable with the
format of MIME messages, it was easy to spot the parts I wanted to
remove and to change the header accordingly.
For instance, some Microsoft email program(s) used to send
multipart/alternative messages with a text/html part that had <DIV> and
<FONT> tags around every line of every paragraph. Since I didn't need
an HTML approximation of the plain-text message, I'd remove the
text/html body part and change the Content-Type: header field from
multipart/alternative to something like text/plain.
In case you need to read more about MIME message structure, Chapter 3 of
the online book, http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/overall/ch-itm.html
, has information that's not completely up-to-date (it was written ten
years ago) but which should get you started.
The script I used has two names, showv and mhedit:
$ ls -l mhedit showv
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root jpeek 5 Apr 30 2005 mhedit -> showv
-rwxrwxr-x 1 jpeek jpeek 337 Mar 20 1998 showv
Here's the script.
Jerry
---- snip ----
#! /bin/sh
### showv, mhedit - show message(s) with no formatting, edit message(s)
NOMHNPROC=; export NOMHNPROC
case "$0" in
*showv) args="${PAGER-less}" ;;
*mhedit) args="${VISUAL-${EDITOR-vi}} -noheader" ;;
*) echo "$0 quitting: I don't know how to run myself." 1>&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exec show -showproc $args ${1+"$@"}
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