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[Christian Huldt <address@concealed>]

> Don Head wrote:
> > What about the possibility of stripping certain types of files
> > (like .exe and .vbs files).  Is that a big rewrite?  It would
> > be better than nothing, and I'm sure would satisfy most virus
> > needs in the meantime, as .exe and .vbs files seem to be the
> > most common (at least this month) types of viri floating
> > around.
>
> Currently , send.* scenaries can use any variable comming from
> headers but no one comming from the body. We plans to introduce
> body variable in order for example to be able to test any attachement
> content-type. In this case it will be easy to reject
> message that contain .exe .vbs and forward those who contain ".doc"
> and ".xls" to the list moderator.

I've coded a little mail filter that saves all MIME parts to disk 
with the intention to add links at the bottom of the out going mail 
since most of our users don't want attachments (or anything besides 
plain text). The best thing would probably be to having this as a 
user preference (along with a maximal size) but I leave that for next 
year.

If you could add hooks for that into sympa I'd really appreciate it - 
and try it again, currently we use ezmlm since I couldn't get sympa 
to do what we wanted :(

Christian