X-Git-Url: https://git.deb.at/w?p=pkg%2Ft-prot.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4fa5264be5d75f7b8ea2461b9465c9f31549f087;hp=fe1eac8a0231b82a7dd51c7fdc5761d60fd7b914;hb=8dcc3a169e9d9c0186282e0ff4f002262e468ff4;hpb=3319969a89bb47afbd35da55d8c0d62a33be9ca7 diff --git a/README b/README index fe1eac8..4fa5264 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - t-prot -- TOFU protection - ========================= +T-PROT -- TOFU protection +========================= 1. What the hell is TOFU? As the man page says: @@ -10,15 +10,16 @@ text at the top; obviously they think that quoted text must not be changed at all. This is quite annoying as it needlessly sends a lot of data even when it is not required. Some editing of messages is desired. - Please point these people to the page http://learn.to/edit_messages - - thank you! + Please point these people to the page + http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/edit.html + Thank you! 2. What does the script do? - It detects, and when demanded hides annoying parts in rfc822 messages: + It detects, and when demanded hides annoying parts in rfc5322 messages: TOFU, huge quoted blocks, signatures (especially when they are too long), - excessive punktuation, blocks of empty lines, trailing spaces and tabs. - For use inside of MTAs or MDAs it may exit with appropriate libc exit - codes, so annoying messages may be bounced easily. + excessive punctuation, blocks of empty lines, trailing spaces and tabs. + For use inside of MTAs or MDAs it exits with appropriate libc exit codes, + so annoying messages may be bounced easily. 3. For what can I use it? There are several possibilities. One is to filter your email or news @@ -33,9 +34,9 @@ further details on the activated features. 5. And what about other User Agents? - I just use mutt and slrn, so I do not know how to filter messages in - other User Agents. If you know how to incorporate t-prot e.g. in Gnus, - please just drop me a note. ;) + I just use mutt and slrn, but I will gladly accept configuration samples + for other user agents. There are already examples for mailcap(1) and the + Heirloom mailx (a.k.a. nail) in the contrib/ directory. 6. Where did the idea come from? Many thanks to Gerhard H. Wrodnigg who uses a TOFU protection script