It says "non-multipart mail - skipping" int the log, and executables are not blocked?
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:26, John Peacock wrote: > Hans Sandsdalen wrote: > > > I'm not shure if I understand. Will it block only *.exe files, or all > > executables?? > > All Win32 executables begin with a small number of possible binary > sequences (the executable header). The exe_filter plugin, like Russ > Nelson's viruscan patch for qmail, takes advantage of that fact, as well > as the fact that attachments are encoded as text, to block executable > attachments. They do not block based on the file extension (since there > are potentially 2 dozen extensions that poor trusting Windows will > gamely attempt to execute ;), but they block the encoded version of all > the executable header signatures which are known. > > HTH > > John -- / hans - System Manager, Kongsberg Spacetec / http://www.spacetec.no / http://www.sandsdalen.net /--------------------------------------------- / HANS = High Availability No Superman
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