Author: Peter Rindfuss Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Filtering MIME Parts
Patrick Donahue wrote: > Hello,
>
> I'm currently using exim and faxmail (http://linux.die.net/man/1/faxmail) to
> route messages to Hylafax (http://www.hylafax.org). Users attach the PDFs
> they would like to fax and send the email to 1XXXXXXXXXX@???.
> Unfortunately, when users send these messages from Outlook they come through
> as multipart MIME entities and the first few pages of the fax are filled
> with garbage. Here are the MIME parts:
>
> 1. The body as HTML or alternatively ASCII
> 2. The PDF attachment
>
> I'd like to somehow strip out #1 so that only the PDF is passed along. (Even
> if the users delete the contents of the body, Outlook still nicely includes
> some HTML formatting). While a simple answer may be "don't use Outlook", we
> don't have that option so I need to handle this on the exim side.
>
> The messages get routed to faxmail using a router regular expression that
> sends to a faxmail transport that pipes to the application. I've thought
> about using a transport filter, but this seems quite brittle. Any other
> solutions out there?
>
