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Pete,
I've tried using a SizeLimitation, but the messages are so small
because it's really just MIME encoded text that is the attachment. The
current setting is SizeLim=250. The NOHTML setting sounds interesting
though.
I've had four types of attachments:
1. MIMEnnnn.RAW files. I believe these are generated by Microsoft Mail.
They are unreadable as far as I can tell, unless you have Microsoft
Mail
2. WINMAIL.DAT. Unreadable and generated by Exchange and Outlook as far
as I know.
3. Additional Text attachment containing HTML version of the text
message. Created by some e-mail packages. Can be removed using the
Language=NOHTML setting in v1.8d.
4. RTF attachment. Generated by some e-mail packages instead of the
HTML for text formatting.
In the following excerpt from the 1.8d docs, it notes that the NOHTML
setting will ignore the HTML attachment, but will not strip the
WINMAIL.DAT file. It probably wouldn't strip the .RTF and .RAW files
either.
Thanks,
Mike
1.8d Documentation Excerpt:
Language= NOHTML: This setting allows you to specify that
LISTSERV strip any HTML attachments from postings (while
retaining HTML tags sent in the body of plain text
messages). You specify either Language= NOHTML or Language=
idiom,NOHTML to enable this feature.
The actual function of this setting is to remove the
attachment that contains the HTML mail from the message. It
does not remove HTML tags from plain text messages. This
means that setting this option will not suppress HTML in
messages sent from Eudora Pro (since Eudora Pro does not send
the HTML message as a MIME attachment with a plain text
alternative). The setting also does not suppress HTML in
messages sent from current versions of Netscape Messenger if
the sender chooses the "Send in HTML mail only" option when
sending the message (because there is no alternate plain text
attachment for LISTSERV to use in that case).
Language= EXCHANGE: This setting allows you to specify that
LISTSERV keep Microsoft Exchange attachments in postings
(the default is to remove them). You specify either
Language= EXCHANGE or Language= idiom,EXCHANGE to enable
this feature. Note that this affects "application/ms-tnef"
attachments only-- LISTSERV does not currently strip
WINMAIL.DAT attachments.
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Subject: Re: Ignoring attachments on Posted Mesages
Author: Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date: 8-6-98 12:20 PM
Besides the feature that is available in LISTSERV 1.8d BETA
* Language= NOHTML
consider line-limitations e.g.,
* Sizelim= 200
That particular value works well on one list that I operate, but YMMV. I
suggest that you search your archives looking for the maximum size of
your average postings, plus at what point (in terms of number of lines)
your attachments to pop up.
Pete Weiss @ Penn State
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