Re: [Exim] filtering on email attachments

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Author: S. Joel Bernstein
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Subject: Re: [Exim] filtering on email attachments
ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/procmail-security.html

I wonder if that will be of some help? It appears to be a (fairly complete)
framework for some fairly heavy munging of attachments....

I have not used it and cannot vouch for it's effectiveness :op

Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marsh, Ian" <ian.marsh@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 11:58 AM
Subject: [Exim] filtering on email attachments


> I realise that this is somewhat 'off topic' for this list but please

help
> as I'm running out of ideas fast!
>
> I have been working on a method to quarantine emails that contain

certain
> attachments (word and excel documents specifically) and have been able to

do
> so using the 'generic attachment system filter' that I found in the list
> archives. Whilst I accept that this is not really the job of an MTA, I

have
> not been able to find an alternative application that does what we need

(ie:
> letting the end user accept the responsibility for the document rather

than
> an admin user).
>
> Unfortunately the powers that be only want documents that contain macros
> to be quarantined rather than every document and I have no idea how to do
> this! I realise that the attachments will need to be decoded and then

passed
> to <some program> to check for the presence of macros, so far I have been
> unable to locate such a program.... If it can be done within Perl then

that
> will be fine as I can then do the entire filter in perl.
>
> Can anyone help or point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ian
>
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