A down the road idea ...
Is there currently a place in GroupServer's webadmin to define file types to
ignore/discard? If there was I'd add VCF to the list, since the value of
that attachment is dubious for ongoing group exchanges.
http://groups.dowire.org/r/file/3134-2009-04-06T133117Z
Name: robin.vcf
Tags: "attachment"
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 0KB
Yes there are plans to deal to vcard attachments, but it would be better to do
something smart with them, rather than just blocking them based on the
mime-type. My idea from January was to parse the vcard, probably using the
"vobject" library
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/vobject/
and only discard the attachment if the information is for the same person that
posted the message. Otherwise you could not post the vcard for anyone else to
the group!
I would also like to do some smart-processing of PGP signatures, and the silly
markup language that Apple Mail uses. However, it is all far down the track.
