[9fans] processing mail bodies

[9fans] processing mail bodies

[Steve Simon]

> i considered adding code to upas to at least
> strip pgp nonesense from message bodies.  but this
> would require upas to know things about what
> message bodies look like after mime is done with
> them.

FWIW I have several sources of mail which have large, unnecessary disclaimers,
adverts, signatures etc on them. I have a serise of test in /mail/box/steve/pipeto
along the lines of:

	if (grep -s 'Forum Subscription New Topic Notification' $D/subject){
		bin/powerboard $D | $BIN/deliver $RECIP $D/from $MBOX
		exit 0
	}

This runs /mail/box/steve/bin/XXX which contains sed scripts to
remove the rubbish. In this case (powerboard), I only receive a link
to the relevant bullitin board message, the script uses hget to pull
down the actual text.

-Steve

Re: [9fans] processing mail bodies

[erik quanstrom]

> FWIW I have several sources of mail which have large, unnecessary disclaimers,
> adverts, signatures etc on them. I have a serise of test in /mail/box/steve/pipeto
> along the lines of:
>
> 	if (grep -s 'Forum Subscription New Topic Notification' $D/subject){
> 		bin/powerboard $D | $BIN/deliver $RECIP $D/from $MBOX
> 		exit 0
> 	}
>
> This runs /mail/box/steve/bin/XXX which contains sed scripts to
> remove the rubbish. In this case (powerboard), I only receive a link
> to the relevant bullitin board message, the script uses hget to pull
> down the actual text.

might it be better for ned or Mail to do this?

- erik