RE: [Exim] [FFPA-Announce] Beta Testers wanted...

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Author: Sheen, Tony
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To: 'Matthew Byng-Maddick', 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: RE: [Exim] [FFPA-Announce] Beta Testers wanted...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Byng-Maddick [mailto:exim@lists.colondot.net]
> Sent: 11 February 2004 15:05
> To: 'exim-users@???'
> Subject: Re: [Exim] [FFPA-Announce] Beta Testers wanted...



> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:51:40PM -0000, Sheen, Tony wrote:
> > I have spent quite some time researching and developing an add-in to the
> > excellent Exiscan-ACL that uses more than just the extension to identify

a
> > file type. The result of all this work is FFPA (File FingerPrint

Analyser).
> [...]


> Out of interest, why are you reimplimenting the magic file and the file(1)
> infrastructure, rather than tying that into Exim?


Hi Matthew,

It's not just another magic file / file(1) implementation.

It is FULLY tied into Exim via Exiscan and runs as part of the Exiscan
demiming process in the DATA ACL (I didn't want to reinvent that wheel
either).

Tony
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