[Mimedefang] ClamAV and related issues running under MD. was: Re: Mimedefangtimeout

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Rob wrote:

> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-i1DKATdg040935/Work/msg-38690-4.txt: OK
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-i1DKATdg040935/Work/msg-38690-5.zip: OK

> The ZIP file in question contains 3 files (a .ini, .dll and .txt).  No sign
> of them being extracted.

Ah, I misunderstood.

MIMEDefang does not extract zip files.  Nor do I ever plan on adding that
functionality.  I have two reasons for taking this position:

1) The number and variety of archives is bewildering (ZIP, LHARC, tar.gz,
tar.bz2, LZH, ...) and when you have zips containing tars containing ... it
becomes too messy to deal with.

2) I'm not confident I could obtain code for all those formats which is
resistant to decompression bombs.

Regards,

David.