How do I strip email attachments server side, or send email with attachments to a different address?

Why are you forced to use Outlook?

what's the problem with procmail (why does it look unreliable)? it's not inherently unreliable (it's the standard mail filtering tool, used everywhere - as i guess you know). is the problem how to select the right messages? if it's just that procmail is complicated, i'd suggest asking a procmail mailing list (or discussion group or wiki or whatever the appropriate support group is). i don't have to deal with outlook, but i do a simple filter of all incoming messages over a certain size (i also filter based on sender, check against black lists and call spam-assassin). it works reliably.

what's the problem with procmail Procmail is great - for what it does. But it doesn't appear to have been designed for this sort of task, and as a result it doesn't appear to be great at recognizing or dealing with binary attachments. Then again, maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about. Filtering by size isn't a perfect solution, but it might work in most cases. I hadn't thought of that. fvw may be on to something with his suggestion. I don't know anything about perl, but I'm looking into it. Why are you forced to use Outlook? Because I use http://www.caelo.com/. I get far too much email each day to function without it.

NEO claims to "Effortlessly transform Microsoft Outlook into a complete email organizer." Wouldn't it be easier to just use a good e-mail program in the first place, rather than using Outlook plus a third-party add-on to bring it up to par?

Wouldn't it be easier to just use a good e-mail program in the first place Over the years, I've used just about every email program out there, from The Bat! to PicoMail to Netscape to Pine, and nothing lets me handle email as efficiently as NEO. (Well, Pine's more efficient in terms of raw keystroke speed, but NEO makes it easier to track relationships and email history, which is important to me and makes NEO more efficient on the whole). Using NEO, I cut my time spent on email down from about 2 hours a day to about 30 minutes, plus I'm much more organized, which means I never miss the important emails in the mass of unimportant emails, and I never lose track of the emails I really want to read but don't have time for right now. Plus it's zero-configuration, which I think is an important value in personal information management software. I'm sorry, I sound like a commercial here, so I'll stop. I just really like the program.

gd779: Predicated on your being root (or able to otherwise su mail) on the mail servers in question, what you're looking for is a combination of http://www.exim.org/, the exiscan patches along with the various utilities it uses to cope with attachments, and basic procmail rules. If your stiffed with another MTA, look into its filtering and tagging possibilities. sendmail offers something called "milters" that seem to be capable of some of this functionality. Postfix probably has something as well, although I'm not familiar enough with it to say what that is. There's pretty much no excuse not to be using Exim in modern times. If you've only got control of MDA or MUA, Procmail is going to have to do. You'll be writing some shell scripts to string together mime-defang and such to implement your rules. Not pretty, but doable.>

Procmail in conjunction with Anomy Sanitizer

(Er. Oops. http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/. Glad I previewed so carefully.)

Thanks, majick. Following on your suggestion, I think I've found a working solution. After some more testing, I'll come back here and post the details in case anyone with the same question ever finds this post using Google.