dovecot - May 2008 - Looking for suggestions: How to strip attachments from mails

Hi,

I know this is not 100% on-topic, but I'll try anyway...

I'm looking for a way to strip attachments from incoming mails on the
server.
The attachments should be stored on a file server (where users have access 
via SAMBA) and only a link to the file (UNC path) should remain in the mail 
body. This is to prevent the mail storage from filling up with a large amount 
of big mails where at the same time the 'payload' (attached file) is not
conveniently accessible by the users.

The current setup is postfix / dovecot deliver / dovecot (with sieve plugin). 
I'm considering piping the mails through something like mimeStrip.pl 
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/mimestrip.pl/), but therefore I'd probably 
need to bring procmail/maildrop into the game, right?

Or are there other (better) ways to accomplish this?

Patrick.

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> I'm looking for a way to strip attachments from incoming mails on the
server.
  http://detach.optimism.cc/

works in line with procmail or similiar.  It is not a standalone server; 
but instead acts as a filter.  I use it in front of my mailing lists, so 
that attachements are not sent out.

I couple this with "demime" to further reduce the remaining text to
plain
text ( http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html - uh oh, host not responding.. 
and I don't see an alternate location for it).

Patrick Nagel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this is not 100% on-topic, but I'll try anyway...
>
> I'm looking for a way to strip attachments from incoming mails on the
server.
> The attachments should be stored on a file server (where users have access 
> via SAMBA) and only a link to the file (UNC path) should remain in the mail
> body. This is to prevent the mail storage from filling up with a large
amount
> of big mails where at the same time the 'payload' (attached file)
is not
> conveniently accessible by the users.
>
> The current setup is postfix / dovecot deliver / dovecot (with sieve
plugin).
> I'm considering piping the mails through something like mimeStrip.pl 
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/mimestrip.pl/), but therefore I'd
probably
> need to bring procmail/maildrop into the game, right?
>
> Or are there other (better) ways to accomplish this?
>   
if you're ready to script a little, you can use
    http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime/
to "extract" the attachments...