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I can't believe there isn't a service out there that does this: Sits in front of your email server, receives emails, strips attachments larger than

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Dec 23 '09, 13:26

X MB and inserts a link into the email instead.

You get to receive unlimited sized attachments and instead of a giant email, you get a tiny email with a little link

Why doesn't this exist?

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Looks like you've got a start up to work on. -- nm - lileve Dec 23, 13:39
... because most people would write this themselves with procmail if it occurred to them -- nm - Beryllium Dec 23, 13:28 14
- but then, procmail can do everything but yet...I don't use it for an email service - oblique Dec 23, 13:29 13
  - Total geekery is unavoidable if you're a server administrator. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 23, 13:32 12
    - Still, I find it surprising that there is no software or service that performs this function -- nm - oblique Dec 23, 13:34 10
      - well, I don't find it odd that there's no service. - Beryllium Dec 23, 13:35 8
        
        so why not have the service ftp/something the files to a secured company server then? -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 23, 13:38 2
        
        I think the SEC would get pretty pissed off if there was information harvesting like this going on -- nm - Beryllium Dec 23, 13:39 1
        
        (In fact, with GMail now positioning itself to offload email services ... the SEC and similar organizations should be keeping an eye out for abuses) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 23, 13:40
        
        But there's YouSendIt and it's like that do this all the time. Just nothing similar on the receiving side -- nm - oblique Dec 23, 13:38 4
        
        Because by definition, a service would have to view *all* incoming email, whereas yousendit is opt-in -- nm - Beryllium Dec 23, 13:38 3
        
        Sure, but again, I also trust Postini to do this for me for spam... -- nm - oblique Dec 23, 13:40 2
        
        well ... then, if they don't have an option for that, buy them out and implement it and be a goldenchild of the next decade -- nm - Beryllium Dec 23, 13:41 1
        
        I figure you could hook up with Amazon S3 for attachment storage and maybe even - oblique Dec 23, 13:45
      - well, get on that! - groiny Dec 23, 13:34
    - (To be drawn to the Microsoft bugzapper is to deny one's own role in the organization) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 23, 13:33

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