[28565] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anybody patching Sendmail to filter _attachments_?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon May 8 15:10:53 2000
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To: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 09:49:54 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:56:17 -0400
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On Mon, 08 May 2000 09:49:54 PDT, Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net> said:
> ...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.
Well, I'm not actually working on it at the moment, but Sendmail 8.10.1
ships with a not-very-documented filtering interface. If you have an 8.10.1
source tree handy, look in 'libmilter/README' for the gory details.
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Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
