Re: Need procmail recepie for >100k attachments.

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

On 28-Feb-2003/22:53 -0600, "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com> wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Daevid Vincent wrote:
>
>> Anyone have a procmail recepie for those idiots who insist on sending
>> large file attachments?
>> 
>> Ideally I'd like it to reply to them a message, and then remove the
>> attachment and only save the message, or else just delete the whole
>> thing. Sometime people (like my sister!) send me 1MB .mov files that
>> just jam up my mailbox and kill my bandwidth.

# Filter large messages/attachments into a folder and
# notify the sender. 102400 = 100k
SENDMAIL='/usr/sbin/sendmail'
:0
* > 102400
  {
    :0c
    | (formail -r -I 'Precedence: junk' \
               -A 'X-Loop: your own mail address' ; \
               echo -n 'Please try not to send me'; \
               echo 'such large attachments.'; \
               echo '-- '; \
               cat $HOME/.signature \
               ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t

    :0
    big-messages
  }


Tony
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