Brad Knowles wrote: >on 12/30/08 10:03 PM, Alex said: > >> Now to the first part - the key word was 'all' - is there a wildcard for >> <content filtering> - <Remove message attachments that have a matching >> filename extension> field that will cover all and any attachment >> filename extension? > >Unfortunately, no. > >You can try using the other field, where you specify the attachment >types you will allow. All others will be stripped. > >> Or what would be the best way to remove all attachments in Mailman >> without installing any more software - i'm surprised i got this far as >> it is and don't want to push my luck. > >You could also do attachment stripping inside your MTA, or in another >program that gets called by your MTA before it calls Mailman. There are >programs with names like "demime" and "stripmime" which might be helpful >here.
To give a little more detail, Mailman's content filtering is based primarily on MIME Content-Type:. You can filter based on file name extension, but that filter only affects MIME parts that have a filename or name parameter in the Content-Disposition: header or a name parameter in the Content-Type: header. Many MIME parts will not have a name/filename so they can't be filtered based on extension. The concept of attachment is not well defined in MIME. There is a Content-Disposition: header that can specify inline or attachment, but Mailman doesn't look at it. You can set pass_mime_types in content filtering to just text/plain, and this will filter out everything but text/plain parts. It will still pass text/plain "attachments" however. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
