Elimination of mime/html part
Sam Kuper
sampablokuper at posteo.net
Thu Apr 30 14:27:29 UTC 2020
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 08:54:25AM +0200, Angel M Alganza wrote:
> [...] I've been looking for ways to remove the text/html part [...]
>
> Is there an automated way that you know of to get that done? Or do
> you know of any third party program that could help me out?
Python and some other programming/scripting languages have built-in or
third-party email handling libraries that can be used to iterate over
messages in a mailbox (mbox, maildir, MH, etc), processing each message
in turn.
Unfortunately, one of the weaknesses in Python's email handling (which
might be related to some ambiguities or flaws in the RFCs on which they
are based - I'm not sure) relates to the problem of identifying a
"primary" (for want of a better word) text/plain part.
So, if you just want to remove text/html parts from each message that
also has a text/plain part, you'll probably find Python adequate.
But if your use case involves being sure that your script has correctly
identified the "primary" text/plain part, then you may have to work
around shortcomings in Python's email objects/functions.
If you come up with a solution that works for you, please post a
follow-up in this thread, ideally with a copy of your source code (or a
link to it) so that others can benefit. I would be very interested to
see your approach.
Good luck!
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