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== 4.13. How do I prevent MIME attachments/HTML/Viruses being sent to lists ==
See also the Mailman FAQ entries at <[[http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.008.htp]]> and <[[http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.039.htp]]>.

[[../From posting by Alf Christophersen, to mailman-developers on 7 Dec 01|From posting by Alf Christophersen, to mailman-developers on 7 Dec 01]]

Most of these viruses/attachments come in as MIME encoded, so you can always use stripmime[[../1|1]], or demime[[../2|2]] to get that stuff off of the message prior to submitting it to the list. You can go one step further, and look into MIMEDefang[[../3|3]], which does a plethora of things for you. There's also Quarantine[[../4|4]], which will strip out any type of attachments to your message. All of these solutions are external to Mailman (in fact MIMEDefang hooks into sendmail - if you're running it), so you can always end up with "clean" messages going through your list.

{{{
    [1] - http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html
    [2] - http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html
    [3] - http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/
    [4] - http://www.johncon.com/john/QuarantineAttachments/
}}}

An alternative is a MIME handler patch for mailman itself - see

{{{
 [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=413752&group_id=103&atid=300103]
}}}

''Last changed on Sun Jul 11 16:14:35 2004 by'' Brad Knowles
<<Color2(Converted from the Mailman FAQ Wizard, col=darkgreen)>>This is one of many [[../Frequently Asked Questions|Frequently Asked Questions]].
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