Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:48:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Robert A Clarks <raclark@regence.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Attachment blocking; has the wheel already been invented? Message-ID: <19991207144833.A5309@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <88256840.006FF3CB.00@notes.or.regence.com>; from "Robert A Clarks" on Tue Dec 7 12:22:00 GMT 1999 References: <88256840.006FF3CB.00@notes.or.regence.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 07), Robert A Clarks said: > I may be called on to setup a system to block inbound email > attachments. > > The only clues I've found so far, point to sendmail with procmail as > a delivery agent, which calls a perl script to filter out attachments > when any but a select few from fields are matched. > > Perl would use the mime module to help figure out what was an > attachment and what was not. > > It seems like procmail may be a bit redundant, but may keep me from > needing to write the delivery agent in perl. You can add a rule to procmail to only pipe messages with a header of "Content-Type: multipart/.*"; that'll reduce the number of mails that you have to run through perl. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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