[rt-users] De-HTML incoming mail requests

[Matthew Cheale]

Try: s/<[^>]*>//g

Sean McKay wrote:

> Jesse/Ruslan,
> 
> We're messing with trying to just delete any HTML tags -- we don't care if
> we catch an occasional greater than or less than sign. On of our programmers
> came up with:
> 
> The regular expression: 
> 
> 			s/<.*?>//g; 
> 
> And I've put the following into the mailgate.in Perl script after reading
> the message in from STDIN:
> 
> 
> # Read the message in from STDIN
> $args{'message'} = <>;
> 
> ############################## Change by Sean
> $args{'message'} = s/<.*?>//g;
> ############################## End change by Sean
> 
> if ($opts{'extension'}) {
>         $args{$opts{'extension'}} = $ENV{'EXTENSION'};
> }
> 
> The only problem is that this results in an empty ticket created by
> RT_System. Any tips on where this should go? Basically the goal is to
> eliminate any html tag...
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Vincent [mailto:jesse at bestpractical.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:56 PM
> To: Ruslan U. Zakirov
> Cc: Sean McKay; rt-users at lists.fsck.com
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] De-HTML incoming mail requests
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:52:28AM +0400, Ruslan U. Zakirov wrote:
> 
>>This option is for download link, if option is true then you get html 
>>page with attachment download link, without it you get plain text.
>>
>>Scrubbing before/after inserting in RT and other methods was discussed 
>>here, search for info.
> 
> 
> (RT 3.1 will scrub and display html inline.)
> 
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