mail/t-prot 3.4 NetBSD

t-prot is a TOFU enhancement for the mutt MUA. It condenses quoted text into a single line, hides overlong signatures, and other email sins.

TOFU is an abbreviation which mixes German and English words; it expands to "text oben, full-quote unten" which means "text above - full quote below" and describes the style of so many users who let their mailer or newsreader quote everything of the previous message and just add some 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://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/edit.html

t-prot detects, and when demanded hides annoying parts in rfc2822 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 exits with appropriate libc exit codes, so annoying messages may be bounced easily.