[Alpine-info] Can Alpine cleanse emails??

[Dennis Davis]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Eduardo Chappa wrote:


> From: Eduardo Chappa <chappa at u.washington.edu>

> To: BeartoothHOS <beartooth at comcast.net>

> Cc: alpine-info at u.washington.edu

> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:20:26

> Subject: Re: [Alpine-info] Can Alpine cleanse emails??

> 

> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, BeartoothHOS wrote:

> 

> B>    Several correspondents are tolerating providers which attach

> B> advertising footers to their emails. I call that a form of

> B> spam, and find it execrable. Is there a way to delete the

> B> footers before they get to me, without otherwise altering the

> B> emails??

>

> The type of answers that you are receiving say that you should

> aplly filters before you receive the message.


The t-prot filter:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/t-prot/

was previously mentioned in this thread.  Other filters I've seen in
use include:

http://www.pldaniels.com/altermime/

http://mimedefang.org/

Usual disclaimer applies, I've never used either in anger myself...


> In case this is not possible you can have Alpine apply the filter

> as a "Display Filter".


...neither do I know if they could be adapted for use as an alpine
"Display Filter".
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