Pruning e-mail attachments.

[Ben Scott]

On 3/31/06, Brian <gnhlug at karas.net> wrote:
> 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.

  Be warned that MIME, like a lot of Internet standards, has a number
of features that don't always get invoked.  A quick-and-dirty hack
based on looking at a couple of messages may cause grief when it
encounters mail from someone else's mailer.  Finagle's Law says that
message will be a really important one.

-- Ben