Re: [ALUG] Uncr**ping HTML email

-- Chris ---------------------------------- E Mail: chris@glovercc.clara.co.uk SIP: 84411389@voiptalk.org IAXTEL: 17003366726 On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote: > Hi Folks, > > We are all getting more and more email with the primary body in > HTML, as well as the corresponding attachment. > > If your MUA allows message editing, it's easy to delete the HTML > attachment. However, removing HTML tags from the body requires > detailed editing. If I want to keep a copy of a message for future > reference, I want to be able to edit it back to good old clean > plain text. Manual editing can be very tedious for long messages. > > Is there some program one can "pipe" the message into so as to > strip out all the HTML cr^H^Hstuff? > > I suppose a simple 'awk' script which struck out everything from > "<" to the next ">" inclusive would at least achieve that, but it > could also inadvertently achieve more than is wanted. > > The thought has occurred to me to open the HTML in a browser, and > mark&paste to the editor window, but that also is more trouble > than I'm happy to go to (though better than nothing). > > With thanks for ideas and suggestions, > Best wishes to all, > Ted. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 > Date: 09-Sep-04 Time: 12:19:13 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > main@lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! > > >