[Mimedefang] zip file stipped

Curt Blank Curt.Blank at curtronics.com
Wed Apr 11 16:51:46 EDT 2012


Thanks. But I think this caught it:

filter_bad_filename($entity)

and exe is in the $bad_exts list. Not my filter, what ever came with 
mimedefang and I'm no expert on the subjest by any stretch. So just 
because the zip file contains an executable it's stripped?

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, David F. Skoll wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:51:49 -0500 (CDT)
> Curt Blank <Curt.Blank at curtronics.com> wrote:
> 
> > I was waiting for a software upgrade and finally got it only to find
> > out mimedefand stipped it so I really didn't get it.
> 
> MIMEDefang only does what *you* tell it to in your filter.  I'm guessing
> you have rules to strip ".exe" and that your filter is calling
> re_match_in_zip_directory
> 
> Again: MIMEDefang itself does not set policy.  Whoever writes the filter
> does.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David.
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