Strip mime - does it work or break RT?

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I seem to recall someone here suggested strip mime would filter
attachments sent to an RT queue. This is something I’d like to be able
to do as these attachments make a real mess!!! :slight_smile:

I also recall someone had a problem with strip mime breaking RT?

I looked through the archived but did not find the messages. Anyone have
any input on this?

Thanks!

Randy Millis
Network Administrator
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. N.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4
Tel: 403-220-4864 Fax: 403-282-6855
rmillis@enel.ucalgary.ca

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I’ve had problems with stripmime and queues with spaces in their names.
Besides that, It’s a godsend.

    -jOn Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:34:44AM -0600, Randy Millis wrote:

I seem to recall someone here suggested strip mime would filter
attachments sent to an RT queue. This is something I’d like to be able
to do as these attachments make a real mess!!! :slight_smile:

I also recall someone had a problem with strip mime breaking RT?

I looked through the archived but did not find the messages. Anyone have
any input on this?

Thanks!

–
Randy Millis
Network Administrator
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. N.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4
Tel: 403-220-4864 Fax: 403-282-6855
rmillis@enel.ucalgary.ca
http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/

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Hi Randy, I’m using strip-mime with RT 1.0.2 on Solaris 7… works like a
charm.

Randy Millis wrote:

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| I seem to recall someone here suggested strip mime would filter
| attachments sent to an RT queue. This is something I’d like to be able
| to do as these attachments make a real mess!!! :slight_smile:
|
| I also recall someone had a problem with strip mime breaking RT?
|
| I looked through the archived but did not find the messages. Anyone have
| any input on this?
±–>8

Recent versions of MIME::Parser break it. Try the attached version instead
(warning: probably won’t work with older versions, and you will want to
customize it for your installation).

brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university [“better check the oblivious first” -ke6sls]

rtstripmime.pl (3.22 KB)

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Randy,

I wrote the original version of stripmime as just a very simple ‘filter’
for mail headed to RT – it was really an ad hoc hack designed to work
with RT 0.99; I submitted it with the hope that it would be useful to
others, but as upgrades to RT and the Mime parser modules are made, it
will probably need enhancement…

But just from a practical standpoint, we use it in a fairly heavy-load RT
environment with over 15,000 tickets so far and there has never been a
hiccup from it since day one.

The modified version that was just posted should probably be added to my
version in the /pub/rt/contrib directory.

Good luck with it – it’s pretty simple.

Dave

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570 Ritchie Highway, Severna Park, MD 21146-2925 www.toad.netOn Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Randy Millis wrote:

I seem to recall someone here suggested strip mime would filter
attachments sent to an RT queue. This is something I’d like to be able
to do as these attachments make a real mess!!! :slight_smile:

I also recall someone had a problem with strip mime breaking RT?

I looked through the archived but did not find the messages. Anyone have
any input on this?

Thanks!

–
Randy Millis
Network Administrator
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. N.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4
Tel: 403-220-4864 Fax: 403-282-6855
rmillis@enel.ucalgary.ca
http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/

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