[Mimedefang] Example needed for action_external_filter

[Miller Michael Contractor USTC]

Paul and any others
I just read up on HTML2text as I could have used this idea myself. We
receive a fair amount of HTML based email(Office2000(Word 10)/Outlook 2000
generated)which is a big pain.
Anyhow, HTML2text has a bug report about Word 10 parsing problems. Seems
HTML2text can not handle it at all.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:freebsd at pksnet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:37 PM
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: [Mimedefang] Example needed for action_external_filter
Importance: High


Hi,

I'm trying to set up MIMEDefang with Sendmail 8.12.1 on a FreeBSD 4.3
system. My intention if to filter all incoming mail and convert HTML email
to text using the HTML2text tool
(http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/html2text.html). I'm trying to
set it up as an external filter (action_external_filter) but am unable to
figure out how to do it. Yes, MIMEdefang newbie here. 

My current code snippet (based on what I found in the examples) for it is:

if ($type eq "text/html") {
       return action_external_filter($entity,"/usr/local/bin/html2text
<./FILTERINPUT > ./FILTEROUTPUT");
    }

But this generates a whole load of errors and when the filter is running
sendmail won't accept incoming mail stating "please try later".
.
Anybody willing to help me out here? Thanks in advance!

Paul


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