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On 2007. 12. 31., Monday 14:31:50 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 14:15 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > The Monday 2007-12-31 at 13:05 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > I have the same need. What I really want it to have the attachments
> > > saved somewhere, and a link to that place put in the message so I can
> > > find the attachment. This way I can reasonably keep my e-mail backed
> > > up, independent of backing up the much larger attachments.
> >
> > I would love to have that, too.
> >
> > > Please post if you find anything. Have you checked procmail? It is a
> > > Swiss Army knife in this area. I think it is more powerful than the
> > > docs immediately let on.
> >
> > Yes, but you need a filter to do this separation; procmail can only
> > traverse the folder and send each mail to the filter.
>
> Indeed. But perhaps there is a procmail recipe for this. Or something
> close.

It may not be the right tool for you... but mailman does something similar. 
Among other things mailman keeps an archive of messages; in this archive 
attachments are stored as separate files, emails contain a link to their 
attachments.
Tom
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