[Mimedefang] survey: dropping password protected file

[David F. Skoll]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Marco Berizzi wrote:

> > A third option is to list the zip file directory and reject it if it
> > contains either another zip file or any banned extensions.

> Perhaps this test could only be done on small archive (200k)?

I believe the speed of reading a zip file table-of-contents is more-or-less
independent of the zip file size.

> > We're going to look at integrating Archive::Zip into mimedefang,
> > because this is becoming an issue for our CanIt customers also.

> Will it be integrated in MD 2.40?

Maybe; no promises.  Because we need it to be part of a commercial
solution, we need to package all the Perl dependencies for all of the
UNIX platforms we support, and doing that plus QA'ing the whole thing
is time-consuming.

Regards,

David.