[Mailman-Users] Removal of all body attachments in immediate admin notification emails

[Miles Abernathy]

We would love to see this, also, the ability to strip off attached files! 
List members complain about worms, and this would solve that.
   Miles Abernathy, miles at mail.utexas.edu
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At 11:36 AM 6/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm a long-time Mailman admin/user and a number of list admins on a server I
>administer have requested removal of the message body attachment in the
>immediate notifications.  Apparently the vast majority of the approval
>requests are spam and due to the effect of the email on their local
>anti-spam software and dislike of the ramifications of their MUA loading
>embedded visible images and web bugs, they'd prefer to get the
>notifications, just without the body attached.
>
>I've read the FAQ, source distro docs and searched the mailman-users
>archives and google, but haven't had any success finding a solution.
>
>Is there a code modification can do any of the following or can someone
>point me in the right direction in the code?
>
>1. Removal of all body attachments in notifications globally.
>2. Removal of all body attachments in notifications on a per-list basis.
>3. De-MIMEing or simple stripping of any remote content in body attachments
>(though this wouldn't fully address the anti-spam s/w concerns, it would
>address the MUA concerns).
>
>Or any other solutions that can address some or all of the issues?  I have
>no Python programming experience, but am experienced with PHP, Perl and bash
>(among others) so at worst if someone can point me in the right direction I
>can attempt to hack the existing code to at least accomplish #1 above.
>
>--
>Steve Werby
>President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
>http://www.befriend.com/