[Mailman-Users] no attachments

[Ricardo F. Kustner]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:59:29 -0400
"Chris Mason" <masonc at masonc.com> wrote:

> We've had so many cases of virus infections spread by our mailing list
> that
> we would like to totally ban all email that have attachments of our
> list. We
> don't care if it causes some messages to be rejected, the other
> alternative
> is to shut the list down entirely.
> Is there a way to do this with mailman, I can't find anything.

An answer is "hidden" in the FAQ on the Mailman 2.1 info site...
(to add some additional information... the idea is to put one of these
mentioned scripts into the /etc/aliases, so they strip attachments before
they arrive at the list)

Q. My users hate HTML in their email and for security reasons, I want to
strip out all MIME attachments. How can I do this?
A. Mailman 2.1 will probably have this feature built-in, but for now you
can use add-on tools such as demime or stripmime. More information on
these tools can be found at:

(Stripmime) http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html.

(Demime) http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html.


-- 
Regards,

Ricardo