[Mimedefang] (newbie) attachment authentication

[Marc SCHAEFER]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, josh wrote:

> 	I want to make sure that an attachment is really what it claims
> to be i.e. a .doc file is really a .doc and not an .exe . Do I need to
> run the unix command "file" to do this or does mimedefang provide some

I run file.

> provision for this type of check beyond reading what the file claims to
> be? thanks for your help.

AFAIK a magic library exists as a Perl package.