[ic] WARNING: Your mail will soon be bounced if you send TNEF

[IF]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Mike Heins wrote:

> (Only pointed toward people who send email to the list cavalierly.)
> 
> I found out what is causing the problem with mail list archiving.
> It is profligate use of ridiculous attachements like VCARDs and
> TNEF. These are almost always sent by a Windows system or mail server,
> and seem to pepper the disk with tons of .bin files.
> 
> Please don't put this garbage in your email.
> 
> I am steamed enough that I may start bouncing email that doesn't comply
> with Internet standards. And I *am* going to start bouncing all HTML
> mail as soon as I can write a reliable filter.
> 
> 


May be that saves you some time or the module mentioned below.

http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail/ssjaaa/pm-code-body.html

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Pm-jamime-kill.rc -- General MIME attachement killer (vcards, html) 

     File id 

     Copyright (C) 1997-98 Jari Aalto
     Contactid: jari.aalto@poboxes.com
     Created: 1997-12
     Keywords: procmail MIME killer recipe

This code is free software in terms of GNU Gen. pub. Lic. v2 or later
You can get newest version by sending email to maintainer with subject
"send <FILENAME>" 

[del] etc....
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         Subject: ANN: Convert::TNEF 0.04 
         From: dwilson@gtemail.net (Douglas Wilson) 
         Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 15:58:03 GMT 
         Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) 
         Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules 
         Organization: @Home Network 
         Xref: news.service.uci.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:1470
         comp.lang.perl.modules:35592 

Ever wanted to convert those pesky MS-TNEF attachments from a perl
program?

Uploaded the latest version to CPAN a few days ago, so it should be
avalable by now. Just search for 'TNEF'.

     Cheers,
     Douglas Wilson

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