Pruning e-mail attachments.

[Brian]

Congratulations on increasing the local population density just a bit in
favor of the smart people :)

As for the attachments, ISTR when I was mucking around with something mildly
related a few years back you could grep for something like "multipart
boundary" in the headers.  This identifies a random-ish string that
separates the text part of the message from the non-text (HTML and/or
attachments).  Not sure if you want to strip HTML as well, but I think if
you look around in that fashion you could write a quick and dirty attachment
stripper.  Just make sure to stuff a dollar it the g-string if it works... 

> -----Original Message-----
> Hello, all -- first and foremost, I'm pleased to announce the 
> birth of Isabella Francesca D'Ambrosio -- for those with 
> places in their hearts for baby pics, have at: 
> http://flyingtoasters.net/gallery/album26?page=4
> .  Now that the birth done with, I hope to be able to make 
> impending meetings again (what with all my new-found spare 
> time </sarcasm>).
> 
> And now for the actual on-topic stuff: I've got a Blackberry 
> user who gets inbound e-mail bounced from time to time 
> because of large attachments.  Since I route all his e-mail 
> both to his IMAP account and the Blackberry, there's no 
> reason I couldn't strip off the attachments
> -- *IF* I knew what it was that designated the start of an 
> attachment. 
> Upon looking at the raw text of a message, I remain somewhat 
> ignorant. 
> While I'm somewhat tempted to delve into the RFC's, if 
> there's a quick-n-dirty way to find out where to start 
> stripping off text, I'd appreciate being told about it.
>