On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:42:38PM -0400, Marc Sherman said: > OpenMacNews wrote: > > "Clamd does not seem to unpack MIME containers, so it is recommended > >to unpack MIME > > attachments in the MIME ACL" > > Like the demime option, that statement about clamav is obsolete. Clamav > does a pretty good job at unpacking mime containers these days. > > - Marc
<clamav maintainer hat on> yes and no, is my advice to you. clamav uses external libraries (libz, libbz, etc) to assist with some parts of the unpacking. If libz can't unpack a zip file (and libz only unpacks one type of zip file out of at least 9 or 10 known types), then clamav won't either. If it's OK with you to temp fail messages because of that, then I'd say rely on clamav - all of the other types at this point are probably viral, and it's not a bad decision to make. If you feel you have to be more cautious, then wish that exim was keeping the demime facility :( </hat> Take care, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | What passes for optimism is most often | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the effect of an intellectual error. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | -- Raymond Aron, "The Opium of the | | | Intellectuals" | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
