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Subject: (off topic) advice needed using demime for sig removal
From: lee <lee . davis12 @ btopenworld . com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:54:03 +0100
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>
> hello everyone,
>
> Just wondering if you're using demime and its associated 
> demime_junkmail.cf file for signature removal.
> If so, maybe you can help me - despite some help from Nick, Dan and 
> some other sources, I can't get my head round the use of regular 
> expressions to do what I want.  Apart from general advertising sig 
> removal, I am specifically wanting to remove old list footers on 
> replies, which the poster has failed to / can't remove before sending 
> their reply to the list. These obviously make replies unwieldy and 
> messy; more so with each reply generation if the trend is continued.
>
> The footer in question always has the same text content and is of this 
> style but wider:
> ______________
> There are two or
> three lines here
> within the lines
> ______________
>
> So far, I have fumbled around in demime_junkmail.cf and find I can 
> match and remove _exactly_ a 'new' footer like that, but not the ones 
> which actually need to be removed on incoming replies.  I think this 
> is related to how and where the email quotes or includes the original 
> mail and its associated footer in the reply. I can appreciate that any 
> corruption of the original line wrap may make my task impossible, but 
> I am having trouble even where the original wrap appears intact.
>
> It'd be great if any of you can conjour up one working expression (or 
> more) into which I can just slot my specific text !
>
> Many thanks for any help here,
> lee
>


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