HTML-stripping Email Client

[Sol]

Hi there.

In the interest of PC security, I was wondering if anyone could point
me toward a freeware email client that is capable of stripping out the
non-plaintext content from HTML/active content emails. I've used
Popcorn, but (unless I configured it incorrectly) it wasn't able to
actually strip out the HTML tags and so forth from the e-mails I
received--it just read all that garbage as plaintext and shoved it in
my face. Needless to say, it was rather ugly and difficult to read.

A plus would be the ability to switch between text-only mode and
HTML/etc. mode. I believe Eudora does this (but it isn't free).

Thanks many times over in advance for your help.

 

[charles]

Hi there.

In the interest of PC security, I was wondering if anyone could point
me toward a freeware email client that is capable of stripping out the
non-plaintext content from HTML/active content emails. I've used
Popcorn, but (unless I configured it incorrectly) it wasn't able to
actually strip out the HTML tags and so forth from the e-mails I
received--it just read all that garbage as plaintext and shoved it in
my face. Needless to say, it was rather ugly and difficult to read.

A plus would be the ability to switch between text-only mode and
HTML/etc. mode. I believe Eudora does this (but it isn't free).

Thanks many times over in advance for your help.

Thunderbird or the integrated Mozilla mail clients do all that and can
optionally filter image content and do spam classification.

Much more full featured than Popcorn at any level.

 

[Sol]

Thunderbird or the integrated Mozilla mail clients do all that and can
optionally filter image content and do spam classification.

Thanks. I really appreciate that.

Cheers.

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

Hi there.

In the interest of PC security, I was wondering if anyone could point
me toward a freeware email client that is capable of stripping out the
non-plaintext content from HTML/active content emails. I've used
Popcorn, but (unless I configured it incorrectly) it wasn't able to
actually strip out the HTML tags and so forth from the e-mails I
received--it just read all that garbage as plaintext and shoved it in
my face. Needless to say, it was rather ugly and difficult to read.

A plus would be the ability to switch between text-only mode and
HTML/etc. mode. I believe Eudora does this (but it isn't free).

Thanks many times over in advance for your help.

Eudora comes in 3 varieties Light/Sponsored/Paid. Both Light and Sponsored are free but either give you ads or
reduced functionality.

http://www.eudora.com/download/

I haven't used it for a while but it does have the option to view in plain text.

 

[Al Klein]

In the interest of PC security, I was wondering if anyone could point
me toward a freeware email client that is capable of stripping out the
non-plaintext content from HTML/active content emails. I've used
Popcorn, but (unless I configured it incorrectly) it wasn't able to
actually strip out the HTML tags and so forth from the e-mails I
received--it just read all that garbage as plaintext and shoved it in
my face. Needless to say, it was rather ugly and difficult to read.

Agent (you can install it as either free [fewer features] or paid)
from <http://www.forteinc.com>

 

[s|b]

Agent (you can install it as either free [fewer features] or paid)
from <http://www.forteinc.com>

AFAIK Free Agent doesn't support mail.

 

[Bart Dinnissen]

s|b:

Agent (you can install it as either free [fewer features] or paid)
from <http://www.forteinc.com>

AFAIK Free Agent doesn't support mail.

And anyway, it doesn't strip out the HTML tags.

 

[Howard Schwartz]

n the interest of PC security, I was wondering if anyone could point
me toward a freeware email client that is capable of stripping out the
non-plaintext content from HTML/active content emails.

There is a highly reviewed piece of dos freeware, htmstrip, by Bruce
Gutherie, that strips html tags from a message, file, or piped text.
It is highly configurable to do things you want with a genuine init
file.

Email clients let you pipe messages through any filter (e.g., htmstrip)
and view the results on your screen, save the results, etc. Pine even
lets you automatically select emails, based on keywords in text or other
criteria which will autotomatically get filtered through a program of your
choice.

I can not speak to the degree that the numerous other gui email clients let
you run external programs on their messages.

 

[Al Klein]

Agent (you can install it as either free [fewer features] or paid)
from <http://www.forteinc.com>

AFAIK Free Agent doesn't support mail.

I think you're correct. It's been many years since I used the free
version, so I can't remember (or know, with the current version)
whether it supports it, only supports reading or doesn't support it at
all. Bad lapse on my part. Sorry.

 

[Dennis Roark]

[posted and mailed]

Hi there.

In the interest of PC security, I was wondering if anyone could point
me toward a freeware email client that is capable of stripping out the
non-plaintext content from HTML/active content emails. I've used
Popcorn, but (unless I configured it incorrectly) it wasn't able to
actually strip out the HTML tags and so forth from the e-mails I
received--it just read all that garbage as plaintext and shoved it in
my face. Needless to say, it was rather ugly and difficult to read.

A plus would be the ability to switch between text-only mode and
HTML/etc. mode. I believe Eudora does this (but it isn't free).

Thanks many times over in advance for your help.

Mozilla Thunderbird can be set to show only plain text. Under View /
Message Body / Plain Text
Excellent mail clinet!

--
Dennis Roark

(e-mail address removed)
Starting Points:
http://sio.midco.net/denro/www

 

[Kurt]

Mozilla Thunderbird can be set to show only plain text. Under
View / Message Body / Plain Text

Courier also does this and can toggle between views. You should still
be able to find a free version if you google. It will work well with K-
9 or SpamPal, and can be configured to use SSL connexions.