On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:24:01PM -0400, TN wrote:
Based on your delete criteria, it would be much easier to filter out unwanted mail messages on an incoming relay mailer in your DMZ. You could do other things there such as filtering out mail with MIME attachments beyond a certain size limit, or just nuking the attachemnts. You should not have to deal with the problem post facto.
-tristram
Thanks for your response.
Trouble is, this is mail from inside users, and not SPAM in the usual sense. We are usually not alerted to the fact that these messages have to be nuked until they are already spooled and waiting to be popped. Which ones get deleted has to do with the size of the message _and_ what their destination is.
We can't just implement a rule that says that everything above a certain size gets deleted, because, generally we accept pretty large e-mails.
I really need to be able to run something at the command line on as small or as large a pool as I need at the time. Something like:
nukemail.pl <some_pool_of_users> <sender> <subject>
This should be a relatively trivial exercise if you employee the help of Mail::Box, it has facilities for editing/searching, etc. many types of mail boxes, local and remote. It has a relatively steep learning curve as mail modules go, but in the end the power has been worth it for me.
Check it out on CPAN and be sure to have a look at the docs, they are extensive....
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