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Subject: Re: Blocking all attachments
From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui @ plaidworks . com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 17:35:43 -0800
To: Chip Rosenthal <chip @ unicom . com>, list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199711152351.RAA09047@mail.unicom.com>
References: <v03110705b093da210e5f@[207.167.80.70]> from "Chuq VonRospach" at Nov 15, 1997 03:01:28 PM

At 3:51 PM -0800 11/15/97, Chip Rosenthal wrote:


> Cool.  Can we get something similar setup on this list to stop up
> those Netscape S/MIME signature turds?

It's actually pretty simple at one level -- I've added these to my
majordomo.cf:

/^Content-Type:.*image/
/^Content-Type:.*text\/html/
/^Content-Disposition:.*attachment/


The downside is it sends them to the admin, not back to the user. So
I've been building filters in my procmail wrappers to trap these things
and send them back with an informative message. But for those who don't
have that infrastructure in place, tweaking the majordomo.cf will get
them into the admin's hand where they can deal with things instead of
having them posted. Just look at the headers of any message you want to
trap, and you can grab the MIME headers and add them to your filter
list.


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