Forgot about the spammers. I'll also put a note on the contact page in my web site to send text only. "Sending HTML messages may delay our response time due to security reasons." Like it? Sounds good anyway. T On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 19:21, Mike Noble wrote: > Mike Klinke wrote: > > On Saturday 09 October 2004 20:11, Timothy Payne wrote: > > > >><snip> > >> > >>Any suggestions for mail programs that will bounce an html with a > >>"Sorry we only accept text email no attachments please." > > > > > > Most any mail client has the ability to filter on the body of the > > message and you could probably bounce on something like "</html>" > > but the my best suggestion would probably be .... "don't", your > > friends and neighbors probably won't be happy with you. Just detect > > them on your end and send them to /dev/null. > > > > Regards, Mike Klinke > > > > Spammers also use html mail and if you send a reply then all > you have done is let them know they have found a real person > and you will start getting a bunch more spam. > Sending them to /dev/null is probably a bit much, filter them > into a mail folder where you can look at them and if they are > from family and friends, you can send them a message that you > only accept text mail. They will probably be good enough to > make the exception for you. If you do not know who the mail > is from then you probably do not want it any way and can just > delete the message. > > Mike > -- > Usenix member http://www.usenix.org > Sage member http://www.sage.org > Registered Linux User #362275 http://counter.li.org
