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In response to "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" 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 - 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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