[Zope] RE: [Zope-dev] I have a dream!

[Jens Vagelpohl]

the product of my dreams... something like that should be incorporated into
any _mailreader_ as an option as well... :)

jens



> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-dev-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-dev-admin@zope.org]On Behalf
> Of Phillip J. Eby
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 12:46
> To: Michel Pelletier; zope-dev@zope.org
> Cc: tsarna@endicor.com
> Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] I have a dream!
>
>
> At 10:32 AM 12/9/99 -0500, Michel Pelletier wrote:
> >
> >While were on the subject, I have a dream too, people not sending HTML
> >encoded mail to the list. ;)
> >
>
> Your dream is perhaps much nearer to realization than a JZope
> implementation.  :)  Ty recently wrote a Python de-HTML/de-attachmentizer
> which we use to sanitize incoming e-mail to IDS.  I am officially
> authorizing the donation of the current version of that code for y'all to
> use, especially if you'll turn it into a Mailman patch that can then
> benefit other Mailman users.
>
> The de-attachmentizer recursively converts all parts of a MIME message to
> text, correctly handling all the various multipart/* variants.  It throws
> away winmail.dat and other common MS yuckies, as well as leaving behind
> text notations describing the binary attachments that were removed.  If it
> finds an HTML part that has no plain text alternative, as a last resort it
> uses Python's HTML-to-text functions to crudely format it.  No HTML which
> is identified as such in any mail header will survive intact, and nothing
> which is not text will survive at all.  :)
>
>
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