[28563] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anybody patching Sendmail to filter _attachments_?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Mon May 8 14:57:06 2000
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:50:47 -0400
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
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Cc: "'Bill Woodcock'" <woody@zocalo.net>, nanog@nanog.org
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"Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" wrote:
>
> Granted, I am not a sendmail.cf guru, I don't see anyway for sendmail to >detect attachement, let alone their names. I only see header stuff as >available for tinkering.
sendmail 8.10.x has an API and filter library which permits filtering of
messages as they pass through the sendmail MTA. Implementing a filter
package which implements excision of .vbs files from messages certainly
seems like a good use for this facility.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Bill Woodcock
> > Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 9:50 AM
> > To: nanog@nanog.org
> > Subject: Anybody patching Sendmail to filter _attachments_?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ...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?
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> >
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