Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:53:53 -0800 (PST) From: International Man of Mystery <wcooley@nakedape.navi.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Another question on mail and attachments Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903181039030.28463-100000@rheingold>
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I know this should be doable with procmail and possibly requiring metamail, but I'd like to know if a system exists that will: Examine incoming mail for MIME attachments, save the attachments in some publically accessible place (ie, FTP /pub/hidden; web space), and send a message with the URL to the file to the user. (It would of course expire the attachment after, say, 4 days or so.) This seems like a very useful thing to be able to provide to users, as it would make their receiving of attachments easier. I switched from qpopper to cucipop to help users with this problem; while it helps, it doesn't protect users who may receive very large files and are surprised by it. Also, it would be /very/ cool to be able to provide it for mail coming from our users; this way, we won't get complaints about people they send attachments to not being able to receive them. (Yeah, I know, we could insist that they FTP it, but that requires /teaching/ them, which is pretty impossible.) Does anyone have an idea of how to do this? It seems like it would require special configuration of Sendmail to filter outgoing mail... Wil -- W. Reilly Cooley Naked Ape Consulting wcooley@nakedape.navi.net http://nakedape.navi.net Internet Meta-Resources: http://nakedape.navi.net/meta-res/ "All the Net you need to be a geek." Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average American: All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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