RE: [Exim] Bugbear virus

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Author: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng
Date:  
To: Nigel Metheringham
CC: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: RE: [Exim] Bugbear virus
On 3 Oct 2002, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 14:21, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> > Changing (\\\S+\\\.( to (.+\\\.( in the unquoted matcher seems to
> > trap this header for me.
>
> It will also seriously false positive - remember that new lines are
> translated into spaces in the filter body variables.


Blast! forgot that. I've not put it in production use, just tested
it with positives.
>
> Basically you just can't parse MIME information by regular expressions,
> especially when the raw data you are working with has been corrupted
> previously. Thats why I gave up on the filter.


At the moment I don't have the alternatives working.

        Thank you
        Hugh

>
>     Nigel.