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From:
Hans Sandsdalen
Date:
August 24, 2004 06:15
Subject:
Re: Filter attachments
Message ID:
1093353318.2626.4580.camel@ursa.spacetec.no
Hi 

I'm not shure if I understand. Will it block only *.exe files, or all
executables??

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:59, John Peacock wrote:
> Hans Sandsdalen wrote:
> > I want to be able to deny a connection if there are attachments that are
> > executable. If I want to use something like reformime to check which
> > attachments are in a mail, how do I do that?
> 
> You can use the exe_filter found here:
> 
> 	http://www.openfusion.com.au/labs/qpsmtpd/
> 
> which matches the actual encoded header for Win32 executable signatures. 
>   It can also be used to block zip files.  It's not perfect (meaning 
> that the virus scanner still has something to do), but it does a very 
> good job of culling the herd...
> 
> John
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