Remove attachments with Procmail?
 

I have this very simple qustion but for which I haven't found an answer yet.

How can I write a procmail recipe that will deliver an email without it's attachment ?

I'm starting thinking it might not be possilble other ways than to make a copy of the message and forward it.
But than again ... how do I do that without copying the attachment too ?

Thank you.

I think that I may be able to help, as i've set up some crazy procmail stuff in the past. Please post your .procmailrc and any other related config scripts.

plan9

My procmailrc file look like this:


#LOGABSTRACT=all
VERBOSE=on

SPOOL=/var/spool/mail/
JUNK=$HOME/junk

PMDIR=/etc/spamm
LOGFILE=$HOME/log.procmail
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.spamm



The rc.spamm recipe file has the follwoing entries in which I'm most interested:

#Declarations...
# ANY = any character including newline
ANY='(.|$)'
# NAME = characters valid in a user or host name.
NAME=[a-z0-9_.-]


#The recipe...

:0B

* $ Content-type:$ANY+name=".+\.(bat|com|exe|hta|lnk|mdb|mus|pif|scr|vbs|wav)"

#Decision
{

:0 f

#And this one gives me headaches ...
| formail -i "Content-type: text/plain"

:0
$SPOOL

}



As you can see , I intend to keep the message , but without the attachment. Forwarding the message with its attachment as plain text in the body message ... is not good enough.

Is there some adjustment to what I've done , or some totaly different recipe that will just strip the attachment off the message ... so I can just place it in $SPOOL ?


Thanks again.

ciop,

I see that you appear to want to filter for common virus types. Wanting to kill the attachments, but still be able to check out the message. I have not done anything like that myself- my experience is limited to file servers and complex auto-responders.

I did some searching for you and found something that I think will work for you, it's called the E-mail Sanitizer, and it's web page can be found here:

http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/pr...-security.html

There is also a procmail email list that was very helpful to me when I was putting my proc stuff together, it can be found here:

http://www.procmail.org/era/lists.html

Also, at the link above, is SmartList, which may be of interest as well.

Sorry that I don't have a quick answer for you! Please let me know what you find out and how it is that you implement your rc script.

plan9