[Mimedefang] Drop mails with pif attachements

[Matthew Thomas]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com 
> [mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf 
> Of Stefano McGhee
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 5:56 AM
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] Drop mails with pif attachements
> 
> > I tried putting the following code in sub_filter, but to no effect:
> > 
> >     # Reject .pif extensions completely
> >     if (lc($ext) eq "pif") {
> >         action_bounce("PIF attachment not accepted");
> >         return action_discard();
> >     }
> 
> If you want to simply discard the message, why use 
> action_bounce?  The problem *might* be that you are trying to 
> do two things: Bounce the message and discard the message.  
> My guess is that MD might be confused as to what to do.  
> Remove or comment out action bounce and see what happens.  My 
> very topical assessment of what you have there.
> Stefano

Unfortunately, that wasn't it.  Tried it.

It's my understanding that action_bounce bounces the entire email but
action_discard only drops the attachment.  Maybe I'm wrong there.  What is
the action_? To completely drop an email?

Thanks,
Matt Thomas