> On 15 Nov 97, Alan Czarnek wrote:
> Re: Blocking all attachments:
>
> > > There's a mailing list to which I belong which
> > has ongoing problems with members who continue
> > to send *very* large attachments (meg or more)
> > >which causes great problems to list subscribers.
> >
> > It's not the size of 'postings' that concerns
> us.....it is the size of 'attachments'
>
> We don't have a problem with the length of postings.
> We just want to get rid of *all* attachments.
>
How about setting up the MLM to send mails through metamail, get that
to strip all attachments, (letting text/* attachments through).
The stripping process could even place the attachments onto a webserver
or such and leave a message of 'Attachment X decoded and is available
at http://www.blah.com/list/attachments/X
Ok, so this does completely mundge the mail in some cases, and you need
to be careful that someone doesn't start using your mailing list as a
web publishing service. But it will remove attachments.
You may need to catch uuencoded stuff seperately, since metamail
won't deal with it.
Mike.
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