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Subject: Re: Digest MIME types...
From: J C Lawrence <claw @ kanga . nu>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 07:58:17 -0700
To: Tim Pierce <twp @ rootsweb . com>
Cc: JC Dill <inet-list @ vo . cnchost . com>, List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Message from Tim Pierce <twp@rootsweb.com> of "Wed, 11 Apr 2001 02:38:02 EDT." <20010411023802.A447@ma-1.rootsweb.com>
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 02:38:02 -0400 
Tim Pierce <twp@rootsweb.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:26:06PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> My concern right now is different: Can I reliably strip the HTML
>> portion from multipart/alternative text/plain text/html messages
>> and end up with a readable and moderately well formatted
>> texp/plain message?  Currently the answer seems to be, "no".

> This can easily be done mechanically.  Works quite well.  

So far I've found that it works, yes, and it even makes a valiant
effort, however its reformatting of text/plains after removal of the
text/html (often the margins etc are screwed) has left something to
be desired.

> Look for demime.pl, which has been discussed here a great deal; if
> it's too resource-intensive for you, drop me a line and I'll point
> you to some alternatives.

What else beyond stripmime?

-- 
J C Lawrence                                       claw@kanga.nu
---------(*)                          http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/
--=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--



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