[Mailman-Users] Re: scrubbing attachments

[John Swartzentruber]

On 9/30/2004 9:21 AM Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 8:53 AM +0200 2004-09-30, martin f krafft wrote:
>
>>  However, the attachment is still delivered to all 80+ subscribers.
>>
>>  I wonder if it's possible to replace the attachment in the email
>>  with a link to the file saved under /attachments/... of the list
>>  archives? Or is this not possible because the archives are actually
>>  generated separately by pipermail?
>
>
>     The archiving step is separate from the mailing list processing, 
> and that is where the attachment stripping is performed.  It's 
> difficult to solve this in a general way, since internal hostnames 
> might be totally different from external hostnames, and you're 
> crossing protocol boundaries (SMTP to HTTP).
>
>     With the list archive, you're staying within protocol boundaries 
> (anyone who can see the archive should be able to likewise see the 
> attachments through the same mechanism).
>
>
>     I'm not aware of any patches to produce the kind of behaviour 
> you're looking for, but you can search the list on the Mailman page at 
> SourceForge.

There is a patch, but I don't have any reference handy right now. I 
think if you (the OP) look for "Scrubber.py" in the patches, you should 
find something. I believe the patch was for an earlier version, but I 
applied it to 2.1.5 and it is working for me.