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Title: Block email attachements by file type?
Post by: Patrick Basile on September 25, 2001, 08:36:44 AM: Hello (again) everyone,

Ok, here's another rather easy question, please forgive me...as I said in my other post - it's been a LONG day. :(

What is the easiest and quickest way to implement email attachment blocking by file type, ie block EXE's, etc.?

I have my e-smith box setup with:

fetchmail-5.8.17-1.i386.rpm
e-smith-fetchmail-0.2-2.noarch.rpm

Thanks!

Regards,
Patrick (a very sleepy fellow at the moment)
Title: Re: Block email attachements by file type?
Post by: Patrick Basile on September 26, 2001, 06:13:10 PM: Hello everyone,

I guess these questions are too basic for anyone to be interested in adding their thoughts?! :) Ok, well when I find the answers I'll post them here anyway.

Regards,
Patrick
Title: Re: Block email attachements by file type?
Post by: Dan Brown on September 26, 2001, 06:55:44 PM: There's really no easy way to do this that I know of. Probably procmail could be made to do it, though; that's at least where I'd start looking. Start at procmail.org and go from there.
Title: Re: Block email attachements by file type?
Post by: Patrick Basile on September 26, 2001, 07:11:54 PM: Dan,

Thanks for your help/input. :)

I'll go check procmail.org, but I'm wondering if RAV or another anti virus product may be the way to do this?

Regards,
Patrick
Title: Re: Block email attachements by file type?
Post by: Dan Brown on September 26, 2001, 07:35:14 PM: Well, procmail is free, and you have to pay for RAV... I don't know if RAV will do it (Darrell might know), and for that matter I'm not positive that procmail will either, but I figured procmail was worth a try.
Title: Re: Block email attachements by file type?
Post by: Peter McPherson on September 27, 2001, 03:20:54 AM: perhaps this could be of use here

http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/