t-prot

display filter for Internet messages

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/t-prot.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install t-prot
Ubuntu
apt-get install t-prot
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S t-prot
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install t-prot
Fedora
dnf install t-prot
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install t-prot
Raspbian
apt-get install t-prot

t-prot

display filter for Internet messages

This program provides "TOFU-Protection" to improve the readability of email and newsposts. TOFU is a German acronym for "Text oben, Fullquote unten", meaning the regrettably widespread reply style that leaves all the quotes untrimmed and just adds some text at the top. This script filters annoying mailing list footers, long signatures, and TOFU, as well as squeezing sequences of blank lines, exclamation marks, etc. It currently offers example configurations for applying t-prot within heirloom-mailx, INN 2, mailcap, Mutt, or slrn. It should be possible to do likewise with other programs that allow a message to be passed through a filter before being displayed. If you use such a program we'd be interested if you could send in your setup.