Removing attachments but delivering the message

[Julian Field]

If you want to learn about Custom Functions, then take a look in 
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions and read the code 
samples in there.

As for credit cards, I didn't realise that non-international credit 
cards existed, sorry.

Fabio Viero wrote:
> Sure that helps...i´ll be sending my MailScanner.conf ASAP
>
> In the meantime could you please direct me to some sort of tutorial 
> about writing Custom Functions? And by the way, i would by your book 
> but i don´t have an international credit card. I tried to look for it 
> at some of the best bookstores here in Brazil but couldn´t find your 
> book in any of these :(
>
> Thanks in advance Julian
>
> On 10/3/07, *Julian Field* <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk 
> <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     For the attachments, I'm not sure why you aren't still receiving the
>     "got the message but the attachment was too large" message, I
>     would have
>     to take a look at your system setup to see that one. As to making
>     it set
>     the attachment size limit depending on the subject, that could be done
>     with a very short Custom Function that looked at
>     "$message->{subject}"
>     to decide what value to return to the attachment limit configuration
>     setting.
>
>     Hope that helps a bit,
>     Jules.
>
>     Fabio Viero wrote:
>     > Hi Julian
>     >
>     > Thanks for your reply. I´ll try to be more specific and i also did
>     > some testing on what i think is the correct approach for my problem.
>     > Unfortunatelly i ran into some dificulties here.
>     >
>     > We have a system that sends a huge number of messages to a huge
>     number
>     > of distinct recipients on the internet and we receive a lot of
>     bounces
>     > (mailbox overquota, recipient does not exist and the like). We would
>     > like to drop these messages altogether. In some cases these
>     warnings
>     > are attachments and we also would like to drop these
>     attachments. See
>     > that i have a distinct list for messages i want to delete and for
>     > messages i want to drop the attachment. Differences between one and
>     > the other are done by the Subject field. In common they have the To:
>     > field
>     >
>     > What i did already:
>     > 1. Setup some MCP rules for the Subject. But i soon realized i
>     > couldn´t do that because while i can tell MS to drop MCP´s i
>     want to
>     > do that based on a specific To address. Should i do that by using a
>     > second body statement in the rule?
>     >
>     > 2. For the attachments, i followed your direction and created a
>     > ruleset that looks like the following:
>     > To:    user at domain.com.br <mailto:user at domain.com.br>
>     <mailto:user at domain.com.br <mailto:user at domain.com.br>>    1
>     > FromOrTo:     default    -1
>     >
>     > No problem arose here, but i checked Mailwatch and the status of
>     the
>     > message told that the attachment was too large, that´s correct but i
>     > didn´t receive any message on the user mailbox. It seemed like the
>     > message was not delivered (although Mailwatch report told it was, i
>     > mean no spam, bad content or anything) and i have both the
>     message and
>     > the attach stored in the quarantine. Maybe here i´ll have a hard
>     > issue. How can i tell MS to remove an attachment based on its
>     message
>     > Subject field? Is it possible at all?
>     >
>     > Thanks a lot Julian
>     >
>     >
>     > On 10/3/07, *Julian Field* <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>     <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>     > <mailto: MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>     <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>     >     Hash: SHA1
>     >
>     >     Set the maximum attachment size to 1 byte and it will strip all
>     >     attachments.
>     >
>     >     Fabio Viero wrote:
>     >     > Hi List
>     >     >
>     >     > Is there a way i can remove the attachment(s) from certain
>     specific
>     >     > messages but still the delivering the message itself?
>     >     >
>     >     > Thanks is advance
>     >     >
>     >
>     >     Jules
>     >
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