I already have tested mimedefang and although better than the one clamav uses it was no were near as good as ripmime. ripmime deals with the fring stuff better. That is things that dont follow standards very well.
Interesting. I'll have to do some testing. We're using MD for a lot of other purposes, but if ripmime does handle more cases, it might be worth adding another parser....
As for binhex you will need to get the program for extracting those. It is a mac native binary format that can be extracted but you will need the binhex tools to do so. I never got it working completely but I did find the tools out there to do it. For some reason clamav just doesn't want to deal with it.
Hmmm, I recall it working under clam's extraction but not MD's, but looking back at the logs of our most recent testvirus.org run, the binhex attachments were caught by File::Scan. We run FS first, then anything that passes goes to clamd, which means that MIMEDefang's own MIME parser was able to extract it.
Since the MIMEDefang author recently took over mainaining MIME::Tools, I went into the changelog, and sure enough, binhex support was added two months ago in version 5.412. It looks like it uses a perl module rather than the binhex binary.
(Speaking of the binhex binary, for anyone reading this, Red Hat/Fedora includes it in the macutils package.)
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