[Mimedefang] Dropping Files

[Jim McCullars]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, schmaus wrote:

> I had this snippet of code in my filter sub routine.  And
> while it matches on the 3 attachments listed in $drop_exts,
> it also drops other files, like doc and xls.  Can anyone
> explain why this would be happening?
>
>
> $drop_exts = '(pif|scr|bat)';
> if (re_match($entity, $drop_exts)) {

   You should probably be calling re_match_ext() rather than re_match().
It looks like you are going to discard any attachment that happens to have
the string "pif", "scr", or "bat" anywhere in the file name.

Jim