On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:02:47PM -0400, Marc Sherman said: > Fred Viles wrote: > > > >Some disconnect here, demime doesn't unpack *archives* at all. It > >just decodes each mime message part into a separate file. So issues > >clam may have with zip/rar/etc are unaffected by whether demime is > >used. > > Yeah, what I originally said was: > > >Like the demime option, that statement about clamav is obsolete. > >Clamav does a pretty good job at unpacking mime containers these > >days. > > By "mime containers", I meant things like "Content-Type: multipart/*". > Sorry if I wasn't using the right terminology there. At some point in > the past, clamav was apparently not great at decoding multipart mime, > and it was therefore recommended to have exim do the decoding. This > recommendation is, as I understand it, no longer necessary.
My apologies - having just fought with a clamav unpacking problem, when I saw 'containers', my brain just saw 'archives'. Sorry for steering the conversation into a waste of bits. Yes, clam's mime container handling has gotten significantly better in the past several months. So, if exiscan's demime facility really doesn't unpack the archives (why was I under the impression it did? - clearly my brain is locked onto archive issues these days), then you are correct. Take care, and sorry for the confusion, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Never eat anything bigger than your | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | head. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ## 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/
