[Mimedefang] spam filter for quarantine emails
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Sat Nov 27 22:35:46 EST 2004
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, John Von Essen wrote:
> I have noticed that when an email contains a violating file attachment,
> spam filtering does not occur.
That's not the case for the sample filter distributed with MIMEDefang.
> In my environment, I sort of have to have the below functionality. I
> block .exe files, and I need to communicate that blockage to my users.
Why?
Why not simply reject .exes?
> Is there anyway to modify the action_quarantine() and
> action_drop_with_warning() functions such that they are not exempt from
> spam filtering on the text body of the email?
Those functions have no effect on spam filtering.
Regards,
David.
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