Automatically strip text from emails

Automatically strip text from emails

[John Haman]

Sometimes writers have over the top templates that I'd like to just remove so that I can focus on the substance of the conversation. One poster put this monstrosity in all of their emails:

  [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
  [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
  [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

How can I automatically scrub this text from all emails I receive?

-- 
Dr. John Haman
Maryland, USA

Re: Automatically strip text from emails

[Andreas Schwab]

On Nov 14 2023, John Haman wrote:

> How can I automatically scrub this text from all emails I receive?

See article-strip-banner.

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Re: Automatically strip text from emails

[Dan Christensen]

On Nov 14, 2023, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> On Nov 14 2023, John Haman wrote:
>
>> How can I automatically scrub this text from all emails I receive?
>
> See article-strip-banner.

I'm trying to strip those annoying banners that Office365 adds to
incoming messages:  "You don't often get mail from..."  I've got it
working for plain text parts, but many messages are html, and the banner
is a table.  Does anyone know how to strip a banner from html?  Do you
match against the html itself?  After decoding the part, I assume?
So far my attempts have failed.

Dan

Re: Automatically strip text from emails

[Emanuel Berg]

Andreas Schwab wrote:

>> How can I automatically scrub this text from all emails
>> I receive?
>
> See article-strip-banner.

Please share if you got it to work.

I have the below function to do additional article washing but
the `article-strip-banner' method seems better in this case
since it only applies for an individual user.

Of the below stuff I don't know if any of it can be removed
using options instead, probably that would be preferable
if so.

(defun gnus-article-wash-more ()
  (article-translate-strings
   '(
     ("#+begin_quote\n"          "")
     ("#+end_quote\n"            "")
     ("#+begin_src emacs-lisp\n" "")
     ("#+begin_src r\n"          "")
     ("#+end_src\n"              "")
     ("--8<---------------cut"                     "")
     ("here---------------end--------------->8---" "")
     ("here---------------start------------->8---" "")
     ("Sendt fra min iPad"                         "")
     ("Sent using Zoho Mail"                       "")
     ("Skickades från E-post för Windows 10"       "")
     ("Skickat från Yahoo Mail för iPhone"         "")
     ("naïve" "naive")
     ("ʼ" "'")
     ("⇒" "→")
     ("➜" "→")
     ("⟦" "[")
     ("⟧" "]")
     ("> > > >" ">>>>")
     ("> > >"   ">>>")
     ("> >"     ">>")
     ("colour"  "color")
     ("⛔" "!")
     ("　" " ")
     ("・" "·")
     ("I’m" "I'm")
     ("doesn’t" "doesn't")
     ))
  (gnus-article-strip-multiple-blank-lines) )

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Re: Automatically strip text from emails

[Emanuel Berg]

John Haman wrote:

> Sometimes writers have over the top templates that I'd like
> to just remove so that I can focus on the substance of the
> conversation. One poster put this monstrosity in all of
> their emails:
>
>   [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
>   [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
>   [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> How can I automatically scrub this text from all emails
> I receive?

(setq gnus-article-address-banner-alist
      '(("rms@gnu\\.org\\'" . "\\[\\[\\[ .* \\]\\]\\]\n")) )

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