On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 01:11 PM, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote:
we've had a request from a customer to be able to forward only the
subject line (or minimal headers) from incoming messages to the
customer's wireless device, the reason of course being that if they
receive a large attachment it chews up a lot of their bandwidth
allotment.
i've been pondering this for a bit, and can't quite come up with a
solution. i keep thinking something like forwarding the message to
another account they create, and that one having an autoresponder on
it, but that's not quite right.
This is something I was doing about 8 years ago on a sendmail system
(and JT probably remembers it as well). In your case, just have a copy
of the email go to another account, and set up a .qmail file for that
account that pipes the message through a program or script of some
sort. In our case, we were using Perl for its text munging
capabilities.
The Perl program would go through the headers and decide on whether the
mail should even be forwarded to the alpha-pager (e.g., ignore mailing
lists, etc.). If it was worthy of forwarding, another part of the
script would modify the message to get as much information across as
possible. It used F: S: B: to show the From, Subject and Body. From
would use just the name on the account, and munge it to an abbreviation
for common senders, subject and body would go through more modifiers
that did things like replace with with w/ and from with f/.
Some of the users would even
StripWhitespaceFromTheMessageAndInlineCapitalizeEverything to get more
in each message.
It was quite effective, and shouldn't be too hard to implement with
qmailadmin.
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Tom Collins
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