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To: Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu> From: "J.C." <dougm@kzsu.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: bozos sending binaries Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:29:46 -0800 (PST) > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:25:14PM -0800, Hannah Blair wrote: > > Please pardon my dirty mouth.... Some idiot just sent me a 7mb > > attachment, and because of that copying-your-inbox thing that pine does, I > > can't delete it. I ran through and blew away the remainder of the big > > stuff that was in my home directory (that 11mb file included) and I still > > don't have enough room. > > > > This happens every couple months and it's irritating.... Any crafty > > workaround besides increasing my quota yet again? > > > > > > thanks > > grrr > > Hannah On 15 January 2001, Romain Kang wrote: > I think you can use the plain old /usr/bin/Mail to delete the > message. I seem to recall that it attempts to be clever about > shuffling bits around inside the existing file. Give it a whirl. > > The other possibility would be to configure the mail server to reject > messages larger than a certain size (e.g., 500K). However, this might > cause more confusion that it's worth... A list I'm on uses StripMime, which you can take a look at at http://kert.knu.ac.kr/cwb-data/data/prjdown/stripmime-0.8.2a.txt ===