Reject attachments

Description

A very simple plugin to reject attachments, with file-extension based rules.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for AttachFilterPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download

Download the zipped source from here.

Source

You can check out AttachFilterPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

Documentation

In trac.ini, add a new section [attachment_filter], where:

• keys match the mime file type to exclude
• values gives a brief description that is shown to the user to explain why the file is rejected

Example

[attachment_filter]
application/vnd.ms-excel = Microsoft Excel documents should be attached as PDF files
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint = Microsoft PowerPoint documents should be attached as PDF files
application/msword = Microsoft Word documents should be attached as PDF files
image/bmp = Microsoft bitmap images should be attached as PNG images

Yep, M$ is evil :-)

MIME type

To obtain the exact MIME type string:

1. set up your Trac installation to show/dump INFO log message,
2. attach a file of the (un)desired type
3. look for the plugin trace that shows the file name and the MIME type:

   grep Filename .../log/trac.log
   

   2011-05-16 15:49:26,299 Trac[filter] INFO: Filename stuff.doc, filetype application/msword
   

4. add this new MIME type to the [attachment_filter] section
5. restart your Trac engine

Recent Changes

[10202] by eblot on 05/16/11 17:53:07

Closes #8806. Import initial version of the plugin

[10201] by eblot on 05/16/11 17:24:08

New hack AttachFilterPlugin, created by eblot

Author/Contributors

Author: eblot
Maintainer: smoothreggae
Contributors: