HTML mail (was Re: [oclug] GUI vs cmdline mail (was Top if my head sugestion for enhancment to GUI mailclients.))

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Brian's Linux Box wrote:

> Unfortunately I can't do that - I receive too much HTML mail from
> people I have no control over.

Luckily (?), most HTML mail I receive comes from M$ Outhouse, and
it thoughtfully wastes bandwidth by repeating the message in plain-text
and putting the text/html and text/plain parts into a
multipart/alternative container.  My mail filter simply deletes any
text/html if there's a corresponding text/plain in the same
multipart/alternative container.  This eliminates 95% of the HTML
mail I would otherwise get.

My mail reader (Pine) does a fairly respectable job of rendering HTML
as plain-text, sans images, web bugs, JavaScript bombs, etc.

--
David.