[28568] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Anybody patching Sendmail to filter _attachments_?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer (E-mail))
Mon May 8 15:29:38 2000
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From: "Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'J.D. Falk'" <jdfalk@mail-abuse.org>,
"'Bill Woodcock'" <woody@zocalo.net>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:48:55 -0700
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The problem with the new filter API (thanks for leting me know about =
this guys) is that it requires a full-scale sendmail (to 8.10) upgrade =
for most of us. Check my headers, I'm at 8.9.3 and I don't see many =
others newer than that. These are production mail hubs and willy-nilly =
upgrades aren't allowed there (we just got to 8.9.3, last month), too =
many potential side-effects (not to mention the lack of full dox).
So far, the procmail approach seems the most generic. However, we have =
to do it on a "per domain" basis, like JD.
> J.D. Falk
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 10:35 AM
>=20
> On 05/08/00, Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net> wrote:=20
>=20
> > ...as opposed to just by subject line? We're getting a lot=20
> of requests
> > from customers that we MX for to just throw away either all=20
> attachments or
> > any .vbs visual basic attachments. Obviously the=20
> Sendmail-Inc.-approved
> > fix is subject-line based, which doesn't take care of that.
> >=20
> > Anybody else working on this already?
>=20
> 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.
