That sounds pretty good. The reason that i mention MIME is because I've
noticed that with the way that outlook codes the message when there is an
attachment, then with qmail's quoting of the message, it gets translated
back to plain text when it makes it way back to the clients (this is without
ever leaving our qmail box, so it can't be the usual problem with echange
futzing it.
Thanks
MHP
----- Original Message -----
From: Ihnen, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Matthew Patterson' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 2:15 PM
Subject: RE: stripping attachments
> But qmail doesn't have anything to do with MIME. It delivers to envelope
> recipients, which aren't even (necessarily) even in the message headers.
>
> Of course, if you want to run it through some sort of filter that DOES
> understand MIME, then, I suppose that is certainly an option. Icky.
>
> An Alternative:
> Have outgoing e-mails transmitted to a different queue. You could add an
IP
> alias to the machine and have tcpserver listen on a different IP address,
> this one being where your users SMTP server setting. It would run a
> separate queue from the other one, and would have a high databyte limit.
It
> would only be accessible internally.
>
> On the other hand, your incoming mail queue (internet accessible) would
have
> a much lower databyte limit, which would stop any e-mails going TO one of
> your mailboxes from having an overly large attachment size.
>
> minorly more disk space, and requires no further hardware. Just an idea.
>
> David
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew Patterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:48 AM
> > To: Ihnen, David
> > Subject: Re: stripping attachments
> >
> >
> > I have a databytes limit set, but that limit has to be around
> > 9MB because of
> > files that we have to send out to customers. This will soon
> > be a non issue
> > as we are selling that contract off to another company, but
> > until then I
> > can't set databytes down at all. However, if there is some
> > other way to
> > strip the attachment after qmail has broken the mime
> > encoding, making the
> > file plain text, that would be what I am looking for.
> >
> > Thanks though.
> > MHP
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ihnen, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: 'Matthew Patterson' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 1:37 PM
> > Subject: RE: stripping attachments
> >
> >
> > > You could just refuse messages that are too large by
> > setting a value in
> > the
> > > databytes file.
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Matthew Patterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:21 AM
> > > > To: qmail list
> > > > Subject: stripping attachments
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I believe that the answer is no, but is there any way,
> > either through
> > > > control files, add-on programs or patches/recompiling
> > with different
> > > > options, to strip the attachment off a message that is
> > > > bouncing back to my
> > > > server so that an 8MB attachment doesn't lock up the
> > clients (outlook,
> > > > netscape, etc.) for the better part of the day?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any answers that you can give.
> > > >
> > > > MHP
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
