At 5:31 PM -0500 2003/07/30, schuetzen wrote:
what i want to delete is stuff which is ATTACHED to the body of the message, a scond part of the message. it could be multipart or a part of the body.
Attached in what way? If it's MIME, you can't embed an image in the body of a message bodypart. You have to have a separate bodypart, which can then be referred to within the message.
For example, if a message is PGP signed, the "Content-Type:" header might be "multipart/signed", "multipart/mixed", or there might be no MIME headers or formatting at all, and the message is in plain ASCII with internal formatting that PGP understands. If the message is in HTML, the value for this header might be "multipart/alternative".
We need specifics.it ismore likely a movie, a picture, a sound bite, etc. all of those should be stripped. it certainly happens in Y!G and we should be able to do it here.
The same is certainly possible with mailman.again, the final test is - nothing which is not Plain Text, US-ASCII gets into the elist. That is the final test. Anything which does not meet that "filter" should be stripped, deleted or better - rejected to the sender with a fault message.
That's simple. Reject all messages that have any MIME formatting whatsoever.
If you can't (or won't) do that, then you need to be more specific about precisely which MIME content-types will be permitted.
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