On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:57:56AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Perl-based qmail-queue replacement that attempts to do what perlmx does -
> you mean particularly for virus scanning, right?
Indeed. That's why it started out as scan4virus, however over time it's
moved towards more generalised scanning features - hence the name change.
> -there are some things in the perlmx framework that don't seem to
> be in qmail-scanner (yet? ;-) ). a few examples in particular:
>
> 1) "Content Rewriting: add new headers or change existing content
> of to incoming messages"
>
> i don't see any mention of this on the qmail-scanner page. is this
> possible at this point?
No - I'm looking at rewriting Qmail-Scanner with internal MIME support to
give me the extra hooks required to do that...
>
> 2) "... operates at the level of the incoming SMTP connection, which
> means it has complete control over factors such as whether a
> connection should be accepted, and whether the content received
> during the connection should be altered before delivery ..."
>
> it seems to me that to do that, one would need to have hooks
> in qmail-smtpd.
Yeah - that would definitely require qmail-smtpd to be rewritten.
Of course Courier does all that right now :-)
http://courier.sourceforge.net/
> btw, do you think it's really a good idea to have the X-QmailScan
> header? what's to stop some other software from placing it in the
> headers? [ there was a discussion of this sort of thing a bit back on
> the vuln-dev mailing list if you are interested ]
So what if they do? It's not used for anything... Also it's turned off by
default anyway.
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Jason Haar
Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
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