I've setup mailing lists on my bbs. I'm sending email alerts from
a subscribed email to it. The emails are in HTML. Is there away, I can force the emails to go through a unix filter of some sort to convert HTML to plain text ?

I've read a few wiki pages on listserv.ini and mailproc.ini; but not sure if this would be the correct place to try and setup a filter.
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Re: filtering listserv/mailing list
By: Amessyroom to All on Wed Jan 22 2025 06:31 pm

I've setup mailing lists on my bbs. I'm sending email alerts from
a subscribed email to it. The emails are in HTML. Is there away, I can force the emails to go through a unix filter of some sort to convert HTML to plain text ?

I've read a few wiki pages on listserv.ini and mailproc.ini; but not sure if this would be the correct place to try and setup a filter.

Is the email a multi-part MIME encoded message? If so, it should already have a plain-text portion that's displayed to readers (e.g. using the terminal server) already. That's how HTML-encoded mails like the TLDR newsletter are readable via terminals and there's no HTML conversion needed.

But if you really need/want to do some some conversion of the message body text as you're importing it, an external mail processor (added/configured via mailproc.ini) is how you'd do that:
https://wiki.synchro.net/server:mail#external_mail_processors
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