Yes, you're going down the right track. I know that Exim also supports a pip facility so the mail could be passed freely through another process via a pipe. That secondary process would do the conversion. You'd have to identify and isolate the HTML portion or attachment and then run that through lynx -dump or similar process. The part that sounds most chalenging to me would be parsing the message properly. On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:11:52PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > I've had this working both for HTML messages and for Microsoft Word > files via wvware. I've not succeeded getting it to work on PDF yet, but > I've run into another issue that I have been meaning to ask about on the > list. > > The other issue is simply this: I'm getting sick and tired of hearing > all those messages about how the mail is getting converted from whatever > to plain text. And, I'm getting tired of waiting for the conversion. > Usually, this isn't that big of a deal for a message or two, I suppose, but a few seconds > here and a few seconds there add up over a day with a couple hundred > emails in it. > > It seems to me it would be really cool to do the conversion before the > mail is dropped into the inbox. I suppose the ideal would be to have > plain text mime'd above the originals, in case there was a need to do > something with the original format. > > Has anyone else thought about how to do this? I suppose it would be a > job for procmail, or some such. But one would have to deal with mime, > too. > > I suppose I'm not in a place to work on this very much just now, but I > do want to move on it little by little. -- Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html
