Plain Text from Sendmail

[Perfect Storm]

I have my sendmail server running nicely on my FC5 box and all is well...

Except that I have a push email system set up for my phone which only has limited data. I can get the messages to push to the phone, but if they're formatted, all the formating comes with them making them pretty big in some cases. If they're too big, my phone will just get a message telling me this.

The way I have it configured is that my personal user (lets call it 'me') has an alias in /etc/aliases to send it to 'mobile'

Is it possible to have anything sent to 'mobile' be formatted to plain text only while still maintiaining the formatting for 'me'?

[brunson]

Hmmm... can't help you strictly from sendmail, I could tell you how to do it with postfix.

An alternative that would work with either, but is a little less clean, would be to have the messages go first to a mailbox that doesn't go to your phone, then set that account to use procmail to process the message to strip out the non-text parts, then pass it on to your phone push account.

[brandor]

strip out the non-text parts, then pass it on to your phone push account.

I'm not sure that would work. Most of the time, the formatting is in text too. It's just hidden by whatever app you're using to view the file.

[brunson]

Well, since you don't actually explain what the "formatting" I jumped to the conclusion that it was HTML. There are plenty of libraries that can handle that. Using python's htmllib I think I could write something that strips all HTML leaving only the text in about 5 lines of code.

[brandor]

Not my thread.

I was just pointing out that your original post made it sound like formatting was something other than text.

[Perfect Storm]

The formatting is html that I'm refering to.

Originally Posted by brunson

Hmmm... can't help you strictly from sendmail, I could tell you how to do it with postfix.

An alternative that would work with either, but is a little less clean, would be to have the messages go first to a mailbox that doesn't go to your phone, then set that account to use procmail to process the message to strip out the non-text parts, then pass it on to your phone push account.

How would I go about setting this up?


My first idea was to use php-imap to connect, strip the html, and mail it along. The problem I've been running into is the following error when connecting to the inbox:
PHP Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream {localhost:110/pop3}INBOX in email.php on line 3
I've tried it using the pop connection and the imap connection, both with the same result.

[Perfect Storm]

...Anyone?