[Mimedefang] One that the default filter missed...

Dave Williss dwilliss at microimages.com
Thu May 23 18:04:44 EDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] One that the default filter missed...


> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Dave Williss wrote:
> 
> >     Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
> >          name=;sz=1x1;nav2=0;nav1=204;ord=ORXTJMDDQL[1].exe
> 
> If a MUA interprets that as a filename ending in ".exe", the MUA is
> brain-damaged beyond repair.  The semicolon delimits parts of the MIME
> header.  There's no way to patch around that without introducing all
> kinds of other problems.
> 
Brain-damaged:  ADV: See Microsoft Outlook Express.

> What I do, by the way, is simply block attachments of type audio/x-wav in
> addition to the filename checks. :-)
> 
How would I do this?






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