[AT] Attachments/HTML

D. Day ddss at scppd.net
Thu Feb 12 19:28:47 PST 2004


Spencer, I also belong to a list of accounting software programmers called
The Loop.  Absolutely no attachments are allowed and plain text is the only
format.  If a member accidentally forgets and sends html or adds an
attachment, the server bounces it back with a friendly reminder. With nearly
1500 members, we've not had a problem or complaint in years.

Dick

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:45 PM
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Subject: [AT] Attachments/HTML


Well, it looks as if there may be a fly in the ointment.   I can do the
following:

Convert any message in HTML to plain text.
Reject/Discard messages with attachments

I can NOT, however, simply strip attachments.   I can only block messages
that have attachments.  Many email packages add attachments (ie HTML
versions of a plain text messages, vcards, etc) without the operator
explicitly asking the software to do it.  Therefore, I think stripping
attachments may end up being problematic.   I can restrict size of the
message however.   We could enforce a real low message size to limit large
attachments/message size.

I went ahead and forced the software to reject messages with attachments.
Let's see how this turns out.  I think we may have to allow attachment after
all.

Spencer


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