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.


______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
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