[Mimedefang] Possible bug? Or perhaps bad config?

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Mon Apr 19 13:28:37 EDT 2004


On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Administrador DyR wrote:

> The last week I received a typical mail-delivery error-message caused by
> the Netsky virus. The notifying message had, as attached message, the
> whole original message, and this one contained the whole virus-infected
> ZIP file.

> I think MIMEDefang should scan recursively attached MIME-Encoded
> messages... Perhaps it does, and the problem is at my configuration...

It does, but some MTAs (qmail, for example) return a plain-text
notification message without any MIME structure.  MIMEDefang does not
attempt to interpret such messages as multipart, although its
conceivable some "smart" (read: "dumb") MUA might.

Regards,

David.



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