[KLUG Members] Procmail, PerlMIME, etc... -- WAS: IMAP-SSL/SSH

[Bryan J. Smith]

"Bryan J. Smith" wrote:
> Better yet!  You don't have to duplicate your filtering rules on
> each client, you just change it at the server via "procmail" (or
> whatever your MUA uses).
> [ This "geezer" BS just re-created his ~100 Netscape filters in
> Evolution.  ;-P ]
> With that said, is there a good GUI procmail editing program?  I
> always seem to screw up when I do it manually.

One thing I did for our old LUG lists was "strip out" MIME/HTML in
posts.  I did this using some MIME Perl modules.  I wanted to take
it further (it was ~4 procmail rules + 2 Perl scripts), but never
got around to it.

If I'm going to go "full bore" into IMAP, I'm going to want to
create a "super procmail filter".  One thing I'd _love_ to do is
break up MIME E-mails (possibly UUEncoded as well) and "analyze"
them.  Some examples:

.DOC/MS-Word:
- bark back at the sender about my refusal to even read .DOC files
(I get too much E-mail a day to deal with it)
- send URL of StarOffice 6 [beta] ;-P
- send URL of on-line/automatic PDF creator at Adobe ;-P
- possibly try an automatic HTML and/or RTF2LaTeX conversion,
possibly via on-line/automatic Adobe PDF creator

Dual-ASCII/MS-TNEF:
- bark back at the sender about proprietariness
- ask them to consider dual-ASCII/HTML instead, and send
Outlook-version-specific setup info
- possibly enable "Text Only" in my return "vCard" to them, if
possible
- possibly convert MS-TNEF portions to MIME

MS-HTML-only:
- ask them to consider dual-ASCII/HTML instead, and send
Outlook-version-specific setup info
- possibly enable "Text Only" in my return "vCard" to them, if
possible

MS-TNEF-only:
- bark back *HARD* at the sender about a MS-only Internet
- possibly try converting to MIME

I can think of some others when I have time.

-- Bryan

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