Re: Anybody patching Sendmail to filter _attachments_?

[Daniel Senie <dts () senie com>]

"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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