[AT] Attachments/HTML

[Robert Brooks]

Spencer;

Given the available choices my vote would be convert everything to plain 
text and enforce a small message size to limit what can be attached.

I guess this means Walt gets to keep his picture.  ;)

Bob


At 08:45 PM 2/12/04 -0500, you wrote:
>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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Bob Brooks

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