[28560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anybody patching Sendmail to filter _attachments_?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Mon May 8 14:19:07 2000
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 10:35:15 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@mail-abuse.org>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 05/08/00, Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net> wrote:
> ...as opposed to just by subject line? We're getting a lot of requests
> from customers that we MX for to just throw away either all attachments or
> any .vbs visual basic attachments. Obviously the Sendmail-Inc.-approved
> fix is subject-line based, which doesn't take care of that.
>
> Anybody else working on this already?
I've seen a fix for exim (check the exim-users archives), but
haven't seen anyone try to adapt it to sendmail yet. I think
maybe the new filter API might come in handy here.
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