I'm in the process of working on a package to strip and/or render
mime/attachments/etc that are sent to mailing lists. It is definitely a
work in progress and I'm still discovering at least a bug every day.
None the less, I have it front-ending all of the majordomo lists I run at
scifi.squawk.com and I also have it filtering incoming postings (to me) on
at least one list I follow. But, frankly, most of my users are trained
not to send attachments, since I've been filtering for content types other
than text/plain for some time.
If you want to help test this, you are welcome to - hell, I'd appreciate
the input and ideas. Currently I'm running it on Linux, front-ending
majordomo managed lists. It also requires that you install libwww-perl to
render html.
It will remove non-recognized attachments (it only recognizes text, and a
very few variants on message), in-line uuencoded stuff in text/plain
sections as is put in by some microsoft stuff, and (as sort of a side
benefit) advertising .sigs from hotmail, yahoo and juno. It will render
text/enriched (simply) or text/html (using libwww-perl).
If you are interested in helping me *test* this puppy, please feel free to
check it out at http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html and sign up for the
demime-l mailing list at scifi.squawk.com (mail to demime-l-request, of
course - but you guys might *know* that). And I'm interested in various
interpretations of "the right thing to do", given my assumption that the
right thing to do is not to put mime and attachments on mailing lists
(especially since my version of Majordomo can only do an RFC1152(?) digest,
which does not work real well with alternative encodings of content and
non-text sections.
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That which does kill us makes us smell stronger, after a few days, anyway.
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