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HTML to Text only emails...



sounds like a valid strategy. Stripping attachments
is the best thing you can do. A nice tool to do
that and more (e.g. mangle html)

http://mailtools.anomy.net/sanitizer.html


On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 11:50, Wizard wrote:
> A company that I do work for, in an effort to protect itself from it's own
> lusers, is considering parsing emails so that any external HREFs inside the
> email point to http://localhost. They are also going to parse out all
> attachments to a central intranet location, where they will be reviewed by
> admins for legitimacy before being forwarded to the addressee. Can anyone
> see any problems with this strategy? (It sounds valid to me, but I wanted to
> make sure I hadn't missed anything before responding)
> Thanks,
> Grant M.
> 
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