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Name

nohtml - Suppress HTML Attachments In Email

Synopsis

nohtml.py [-hv]

Options

-h
print help information

-v
print detailed version information.

Description

'nohtml' is a short Python script intended to be used in a mail alias to strip HTML out of inbound messages. It is most useful when used in conjunction with something like the 'majordomo' mailing list manager to keep people from posting HTML to mailing lists.

For example, here are 'Before' and 'After' entries in the sendmail 'aliases' file which enable this filter to process inbound emails before they are delivered to the mailing list: 


Before:
listname: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l listname -h hostdomain.com
listname-list"
After:
listname: "|/local/bin/python /local/bin/nohtml.py |/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper
...

Notice that, in this context, you must explictly invoke the Python interpreter in the alias pipeline. This is because there is no shell interpeter present at the time the alias is invoked, so the usual #! shell invocation found in the first line of the script will not work.

Other

You must have a reasonably current version of Python installed.

Bugs and Misfeatures

None known as of this release.

Copyright and Licensing

'nohtml' is Copyright(c) TundraWare Inc. For terms of use, see the nohtml-license.txt file in the program distribution.

Author


Tim Daneliuk
nohtml@tundraware.com