[Mimedefang] Quarantine question. (stripping attachments)
Stefano McGhee
SMcGhee at ARCweb.com
Thu Oct 30 15:19:32 EST 2003
> I want mimedefang to strip attachments that have suspicious suffixes
> in the attached file names, but still pass along the text of the
> message to the recipient. The problem is that the routines that do
> this, i.e. action_quarantine, also save the quarantind messages in
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang There appears to be no automatic mechanism
> which purges this directory. I would prefer simply to drop the
> attachment and not save anything in that directory, but I don't see
> any routine in mimedefang.pl that does this. Will I have to create
> my own version of action_quarantine that deletes the temporary
> message, or is there an easier solution? Thanks. - Mark
Hello,
Check man mimedefang-filter. You might want action_drop instead of
action_quarantine. There had been someone on the list that gave us a
useful script to purge that directory periodically and automatically, but
that doesn't seem to be what you want. Check action_drop.
Cheers,
Stefano
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