On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Lucas Albers wrote: > To make sure I inderstand this completelly > Doing an action_rebuild will only change mime messages that are invalid?
No, it rebuilds unconditionally. > It will break some mime messages for some clients? Yes. > How often does this breakage occur? I have no idea. I use it, and haven't noticed a problem yet. > The mydoom virus used invalid mime that would be been fixed if it > action_rebuild had been done on it? Well, it would have been rendered harmless. > Blocking harmful attachment types would have protected from this virus > irrespective of whether you were rebuilding mime types? No. If MIMEDefang can't decode something, it can't recognize a dangerous filename. But rebuilding would have left the attachment as text/plain that would have been rendered as gobbledygook in a MUA. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
