Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

[Chip Marshall]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:08, Ben Scott wrote:
> * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text
> * Replace any common Unicode characters with ASCII equivilents
> * Replace unhandled non-ASCII characters with an ASCII text
>   representation
> * When a plain text body alternative is provided, strip any other body
>   alternatives
> * Render HTML to plain text, when only an HTML body is provided
> * Strip any remaining MIME headers

Assuming the user cared about PGP signed messages, one might want to
devise a filter to convert PGP MIME messages into clear ASCII
signatures.

-- 
Chip Marshall <chip at 2bithacker.net>
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