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* [gentoo-user] maildrop and cleaning multipart MIME emails to plain text. (T-Moble tmomail.net service)
@ 2009-11-08 23:04 Stroller
  2009-11-08 23:14 ` Alan McKinnon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stroller @ 2009-11-08 23:04 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hi there,

A friend has started sending text messages from her phone to my email  
address. They arrive with a from: address of 1212121212@tmomail.net  
(where 1212121212 is her cell number) and I can reply to them and  
that's all great, but they come annoyingly encumbered with a bunch of  
T-Mobile .gif images and such clutter. The plain text of these  
messages are only a few words, yet the email is 25kb in size because  
of all these images!

If I look at the message source it shows rubbish like this:

    ------=_Part_1260035_17792989.1257702378190
    Content-Type: text/html
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
    Content-Location: 01smil
    Content-ID: <0000>
    Content-Disposition: inline

    <html>
      <head>
    =09=09<title>T-Mobile</title>=20
    =09=09<!--
    =09=09=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
    =09=09If you can read this text, but much of the message below  
seems unread=
    able, you might be using an e-mail program that does not work with  
HTML.

    =09=09=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D-->
    =09=09<style type=3D"text/css">
    <!--

    =09=09.footer {
    =09=09=09font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    =09=09=09font-size: 11px;
    =09=09=09color: #555555;
    =09=09=09text-decoration: none;
    ...
    =09=09-->
    =09=09</style>
    =09</head>
    =09<body marginwidth=3D"0" marginheight=3D"0" leftmargin=3D"0"  
topmargin=3D=
    "0" bgcolor=3D"#ffffff">
    =09=09<table border=3D"0" width=3D"600" cellspacing=3D"0"  
cellpadding=3D"0"=


All this to say, pretty much, "how are you? lol"!  (and the above is  
severely truncated - I only show it to show what a mess this is!)

What I find really aggravating about this is that if I click reply  
then my mail reader will quote an HTML table (which T-Mobile used to  
arrange their pretty graphics) and yet won't actually attach the  
original graphics themselves, so I see this big ugly of quoted:

    <dottedline350.gif>
    <tmobilespace.gif>
    <tmobilelogo.gif>
    <tmobilespace.gif>

The great thing about these messages are that they appear to contain a  
plain text section:

    ------=_Part_1233335_2792974.3457702378123
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; name=Text01.txt
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    Content-Location: Text01.txt
    Content-Disposition: inline
    Content-ID: <555>

    how are you? lol
    ------=_Part_1233335_2792974.3457702378123


So my big question is, can anyone suggest any tools for reformatting  
the message as plain text only, and dumping all the crap?

I would love it if there's a tool that will just do the whole job for  
me, but I'm prepared to hack together my own Bash script if necessary.

I really want to leave the headers intact, so that I can get maildrop  
to perform the action, and it'll come into my mailbox still looking  
like an ordinary email, but a plain text one, and with the subject and  
reply-to address unchanged.

I really want to get maildrop to *still* send me the original message  
with all the crap in it, but *also* this plain text copy - there are  
indicators that the service is MMS based, so it's possible that  
attachments could be sent, and I don't want to just dump a photo,  
should one be sent.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I feel kinda ridiculous having to write such a long email - and  
perhaps spend a bunch more time writing scripts - to handle such a  
stupid thing. I guess the ridiculous thing is the cell company adding  
all this junk to a simple text message. But I can really imagine this  
formatting getting my goat enormously over time, and I don't want to  
get annoyed at my friend over such a trivial thing.

Stroller.





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