ignore text/plain part of multipart/alternative messages?

David Flanagan david at davidflanagan.com
Wed Aug 13 00:41:51 CEST 2003


> Would you care to send me one of those "text/plain is book excerpt,
> text/html is UCE" mails so I can have a look? If so, please save the
> whole mail to a file ("export") and zip it before you attach, so it
> doesn't get filtered out here. You can omit non-MIME headers if you want
> to protect your privacy, all I need are MIME-Version: and Content-*:
> headers.

I use Emacs RMAIL, which is not mime-aware, so attaching zipped files is
a pain.  Instead, I've posted a sample spam here:

    http://www.djf.net/spam.txt

Note that line endings and other parts looks like they have been mangled a
bit.  I always get this for messages using a quoted-printable
encoding. I don't know if that is supposed to happen or whether
something in my email toolchain (like my antique mail reader) is
responsible for the corruption.  In any case, you'll still be able to
get the basic idea, even though the HTML part is trashed beyond repair.

    David Flanagan




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