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rejecting large emails

1999-05-17 08:31:40
People keep sending me email with huge attachments, and they're
consuming too much of my disk space.  In addition, about half of
them are MS-Winders files that I don't have any use for anyway.  
Sometimes the files come through in the message area rather than
as attachments.

What I think I'd like to do is

  - Examine the total number of lines in a message (text
    plus attachments), and forward it to /dev/null if that
    number exceeds some limit I set.  If I can use bytes 
    instead of lines, that'd probably be better....

  - If possible, deliver the first 100 lines or so of the 
    message to my default mailbox, just in case the textual
    part of the message was important.

  - Autorespond to the sender (unless the value of the 
    precedence header is list, junk or bulk), explaining what 
    happened and why.

Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance....

Mark Shaw <mshaw(_at_)ti(_dot_)com>

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