[CLUE-Admin] Binary Attachments on the Mailing Lists

David Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Thu Jul 8 11:39:53 MDT 2004


Jed S. Baer wrote:

[...]
> I'm all for stripping attachments on the mailing lists. For one thing, it
> should get rid of any viruses. For another, I don't think our mailing
> lists need to be used to send out JPGs, PDFs, etc. anyway.

I agree.  My home mailman has an option to filter based on MIME type so 
I don't think any extra stuff is required.  I don't know how the 
defaults work.  Probably we want to allow (at least some) text attachments.

[...]
> p.s. I'm curious to look at the raw message headers (as seen by the list,
> not a list recipient). Is there an easy way to pull it out of
> /home/mailman/archives/public/clue-tech.mbox ?

grep -B 1 -A 40 proxy-sabata-ejp.powernet.cz clue-tech.mbox | head -41

Dave





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