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Hi there, |
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A friend has started sending text messages from her phone to my email |
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address. They arrive with a from: address of 1212121212@×××××××.net |
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(where 1212121212 is her cell number) and I can reply to them and |
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that's all great, but they come annoyingly encumbered with a bunch of |
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T-Mobile .gif images and such clutter. The plain text of these |
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messages are only a few words, yet the email is 25kb in size because |
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of all these images! |
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If I look at the message source it shows rubbish like this: |
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------=_Part_1260035_17792989.1257702378190 |
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Content-Type: text/html |
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable |
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Content-Location: 01smil |
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Content-ID: <0000> |
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Content-Disposition: inline |
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<html> |
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<head> |
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=09=09<title>T-Mobile</title>=20 |
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=09=09<!-- |
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=09=09=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D |
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=09=09If you can read this text, but much of the message below |
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seems unread= |
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able, you might be using an e-mail program that does not work with |
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HTML. |
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=09=09=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D--> |
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=09=09<style type=3D"text/css"> |
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<!-- |
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=09=09.footer { |
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=09=09=09font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; |
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=09=09=09font-size: 11px; |
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=09=09=09color: #555555; |
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=09=09=09text-decoration: none; |
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... |
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=09=09--> |
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=09=09</style> |
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=09</head> |
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=09<body marginwidth=3D"0" marginheight=3D"0" leftmargin=3D"0" |
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topmargin=3D= |
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"0" bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"> |
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=09=09<table border=3D"0" width=3D"600" cellspacing=3D"0" |
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cellpadding=3D"0"= |
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All this to say, pretty much, "how are you? lol"! (and the above is |
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severely truncated - I only show it to show what a mess this is!) |
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What I find really aggravating about this is that if I click reply |
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then my mail reader will quote an HTML table (which T-Mobile used to |
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arrange their pretty graphics) and yet won't actually attach the |
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original graphics themselves, so I see this big ugly of quoted: |
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<dottedline350.gif> |
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<tmobilespace.gif> |
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<tmobilelogo.gif> |
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<tmobilespace.gif> |
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The great thing about these messages are that they appear to contain a |
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plain text section: |
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------=_Part_1233335_2792974.3457702378123 |
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; name=Text01.txt |
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit |
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Content-Location: Text01.txt |
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Content-Disposition: inline |
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Content-ID: <555> |
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how are you? lol |
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------=_Part_1233335_2792974.3457702378123 |
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So my big question is, can anyone suggest any tools for reformatting |
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the message as plain text only, and dumping all the crap? |
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I would love it if there's a tool that will just do the whole job for |
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me, but I'm prepared to hack together my own Bash script if necessary. |
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I really want to leave the headers intact, so that I can get maildrop |
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to perform the action, and it'll come into my mailbox still looking |
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like an ordinary email, but a plain text one, and with the subject and |
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reply-to address unchanged. |
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I really want to get maildrop to *still* send me the original message |
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with all the crap in it, but *also* this plain text copy - there are |
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indicators that the service is MMS based, so it's possible that |
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attachments could be sent, and I don't want to just dump a photo, |
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should one be sent. |
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Thanks in advance for any suggestions. |
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I feel kinda ridiculous having to write such a long email - and |
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perhaps spend a bunch more time writing scripts - to handle such a |
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stupid thing. I guess the ridiculous thing is the cell company adding |
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all this junk to a simple text message. But I can really imagine this |
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formatting getting my goat enormously over time, and I don't want to |
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get annoyed at my friend over such a trivial thing. |
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Stroller. |
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