At 16:37 2001-07-30 -0700, A. Rivera wrote:
I want to be able to remove attachments from incoming mail, but still send
the rest of the email to the receipient. I don't want to /dev/null the
whole thing.
Well, the keyword is "mime" - the type of encoding most attachments these
days come in. If you search the archives for that, you should find a
number of related hits.
I know that "stripmime", a handy perl script that will process the MIME
message and strip out attachments (conveniently including a stub in the
message indicating that an attachment was removed), should accomplish
basically what you're asking to do.
The post I mentioned it in can be found in the list archives:
<http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2001-04/msg00003.html>
Note that UUENCODED or BINHEX'd in-body style attachments will not be
filtered with such a mechanism, though a bit of coding (either within
procmail, or the stripmime helper application), you could trim out
UUENCODED blocks.
I just checked the URL in my previous post, and the original author of the
utility has updated the script to strip out HTML from message bodies as
well (I didn't examine it to see if it is an option or not, but a bit of
coding would make it so if it wasn't already).
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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