[Mimedefang] use strict

[David F. Skoll]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

> In addition to "use strict", does it make sense to use "-wT"?

Taint-checking would probably cause lots of problems.

> (Presumably this would need to be in mimedefang.pl.) Could a hostile 
> sender effect a shell escape in a poorly-written filter?

Well, by definition, a "poorly-written" filter can let a hostile
sender do anything. :-)  You could write a filter that executes
the subjects of incoming e-mails as shell commands if you really
wanted to.

Regards,

David.