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    From Martin Kazmaier@618:300/50 to All on Sunday, October 29, 2023 18:43:00
    Does there happen to exist a win32 or dos script to clean up incoming email from a windows email app? It's got a lot of garbage in it that plain text
    apps can't use.

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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to Martin Kazmaier on Sunday, October 29, 2023 22:22:52
    Does there happen to exist a win32 or dos script to clean up incoming email
    from a windows email app? It's got a lot of garbage in it that plain text apps can't use.

    Like an HTML scraper? Well, there's no "script" to do that natively that I'm aware of but there are programs that can do it for you.

    A quick Web search turned up this freeware tool: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/htmlastext.html

    "HTMLAsText utility converts HTML documents to simple text files, by removing all HTML tags and formatting the text according to your preferences."

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  • From Kurt Weiske@618:300/16 to Martin Kazmaier on Monday, October 30, 2023 07:39:00
    Martin Kazmaier wrote to All <=-

    Does there happen to exist a win32 or dos script to clean up incoming email from a windows email app? It's got a lot of garbage in it that plain text apps can't use.

    Not sure what to do once mail gets to your app, but I used to use a
    script called "procmail sanitizer" on a Linux host I used for mail. It'd
    get rid of most attachment viruses, convert HTML to plain text and do a
    lot of organization for me. It allowed me to check mail using PINE
    nicely when I was traveling, and I could still read mail using IMAP on
    Outlook if I wanted to when I was at home.



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