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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Mental Core Dump: Virus Scanning from a system filter revisited
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 09:44:50 +0100, Phil Pennock
<Phil.Pennock@???> wrote:
>On 2000-11-12 at 22:57 +0100, Marc Haber gifted us with:
>> Actually, I don't think that any modifications in the exim code base
>> are necessary to implement this concept.
>
>How about:
> message_body_visible = all
>?


That would require exim to pull all message body into memory, which
would put more load on the host system. And I'd have to write it to a
file anyway.

>Personal opinion: any filter needs to speak MIME fluently,


Yes.

>as well as
>have pre-fixup -- remember that one of the MUAs being protected
>(MS Outlook) doesn't need a Content-Type: header.


Doesn't uudecoding the message solve this?

Greetings
Marc

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