[Dovecot] Looking for suggestions: How to strip attachments from mails

[Patrick Nagel]

Hi,

I know this is not 100% on-topic, but I'll try anyway...

I'm looking for a way to strip attachments from incoming mails on the server. 
The attachments should be stored on a file server (where users have access 
via SAMBA) and only a link to the file (UNC path) should remain in the mail 
body. This is to prevent the mail storage from filling up with a large amount 
of big mails where at the same time the 'payload' (attached file) is not 
conveniently accessible by the users.

The current setup is postfix / dovecot deliver / dovecot (with sieve plugin). 
I'm considering piping the mails through something like mimeStrip.pl 
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/mimestrip.pl/), but therefore I'd probably 
need to bring procmail/maildrop into the game, right?

Or are there other (better) ways to accomplish this?

Patrick.

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