[Alpine-info] Can Alpine cleanse emails??

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, BeartoothHOS wrote:


> 	Several correspondents are tolerating providers which attach 

> advertising footers to their emails. I call that a form of spam, and 

> find it execrable. Is there a way to delete the footers before they get 

> to me, without otherwise altering the emails??


I would say it is not (necessarily) an alpine question (I have never used 
alpine filtering). To do things like that BEFORE (*really* before) they 
get to your alpine, you'd have e.g. to filter them in procmail.

I have procmail arrangements which delete text/html attachments and 
replace with a short text/plain notice "attachment deleted", and also 
which delete the copy of the message replied to from replies by people 
doing top-posting (two more execrable usages). Ask me for details.

You'd have to find an univocal way to tell where your footer starts and 
ends.

To play safe, I do remove the unwanted stuff from the message which gets 
to my inbox, but I store a copy of the original message in a folder (which 
gets rotated and deleted after 7 days).

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