editing mail spool file

2003-10-03 Thread Richard Fernandez
On occasion someone sends out a mail message with MIME attachment that we want to delete from the recipient's spool file. This happens on a Solaris box, so I'm talking about editing /var/mail/, and there are often dozens of recipients. What we've been doing is using "mutt -f" to open each individ

RE: editing mail spool file

2003-10-03 Thread TN
Based on your delete criteria, it would be much easier to filter out unwanted mail messages on an incoming relay mailer in your DMZ. You could do other things there such as filtering out mail with MIME attachments beyond a certain size limit, or just nuking the attachemnts. You should not have to

Re: editing mail spool file

2003-10-06 Thread Richard Fernandez
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:24:01PM -0400, TN wrote: > Based on your delete criteria, it would be much easier to filter out > unwanted mail messages on an incoming relay mailer in your DMZ. You > could do other things there such as filtering out mail with MIME > attachments beyond a certain size li

Re: editing mail spool file

2003-10-06 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Richard Fernandez wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:24:01PM -0400, TN wrote: Based on your delete criteria, it would be much easier to filter out unwanted mail messages on an incoming relay mailer in your DMZ. You could do other things there such as filtering out mail with MIME attachments beyond

Re: editing mail spool file

2003-10-07 Thread Richard Fernandez
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:52:31PM -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > Richard Fernandez wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:24:01PM -0400, TN wrote: > > > >>Based on your delete criteria, it would be much easier to filter out > >>unwanted mail messages on an incoming relay mailer in your DMZ. Yo