[nos-bbs] Simplify Incoming Messages

[John Kristian]

Can you recommend a way to remove the attachments and decode the main 
text, in messages that JNOS receives via SMTP? Perhaps this would be 
auxiliary software, which receives the messages first, simplifies them 
and then sends them to JNOS.

This would be useful in my application. Most of my users access JNOS as 
a BBS, and use software that creates and interprets plain text messages. 
This works fine, since they can only send plain text messages. But 
sometimes people send messages to JNOS via SMTP from Outlook, MS Mail 
etc. Those messages are apt to be encoded, or contain HTML, or have 
attachments, none of which the users' software can interpret correctly.

As far as I know, one can't reliably interpret complex messages that are 
retrieved from a JNOS mailbox. The headers that identify the MIME type 
are missing. The message body is complete, but line breaks are inserted 
into long lines. I'm using JNOS version 2.0k.2 (old, I know).

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Best regards,
John Kristian W6JMK
Sysop for ARES/RACES in Santa Clara County, California