[Mailman-Users] blocking MIME

[alex wetmore]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Phillip Lord wrote:
>        I'd like to block all MIME messages going to a mailman
> mailing list, or alternatively hold them up for moderation. This is
> partly so that I can block HTML mail because its annoying, and pretty
> much everything else to avoid the mail virus problem.
>
>        Is there a simple way that I can achieve this from within
> mailman. Currently the only option I can think of is prefiltering
> mail, and killing all mime.

I've written a script for doing this.  You can find it at
http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html

I believe Mailman 2.1 will have this functionality built in.

alex