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In response to
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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
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by
oblique
... because most people would write this themselves with procmail if it occurred to them -- nm
Posted by
Beryllium (aka grayman)
Dec 23 '09, 13:28
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but then, procmail can do everything but yet...I don't use it for an email service
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oblique
Dec 23, 13:29
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Total geekery is unavoidable if you're a server administrator. -- nm
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Beryllium
Dec 23, 13:32
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Still, I find it surprising that there is no software or service that performs this function -- nm
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oblique
Dec 23, 13:34
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well, I don't find it odd that there's no service.
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Beryllium
Dec 23, 13:35
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so why not have the service ftp/something the files to a secured company server then? -- nm
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tRuMaN
Dec 23, 13:38
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I think the SEC would get pretty pissed off if there was information harvesting like this going on -- nm
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Beryllium
Dec 23, 13:39
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(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
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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
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oblique
Dec 23, 13:38
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Because by definition, a service would have to view *all* incoming email, whereas yousendit is opt-in -- nm
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Beryllium
Dec 23, 13:38
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Sure, but again, I also trust Postini to do this for me for spam... -- nm
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oblique
Dec 23, 13:40
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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
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Beryllium
Dec 23, 13:41
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I figure you could hook up with Amazon S3 for attachment storage and maybe even
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oblique
Dec 23, 13:45
well, get on that!
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groiny
Dec 23, 13:34
(To be drawn to the Microsoft bugzapper is to deny one's own role in the organization) -- nm
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Beryllium
Dec 23, 13:33
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