Re: [exim] demime condition vs MIME ACL

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Author: Kirill Miazine
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] demime condition vs MIME ACL
* Don Walker [2005-02-22 11:00]:
> >> I can't figure out how to check attached file extensions
> >>using a MIME ACL. What am I missing? Thanks.
> >

[...]
> >Here's exim.conf stuff:
> >
> ># main
> >BLACKLIST_FILES = /etc/exim/blacklist_files
> >FILENAME_EXT = ${sg{$mime_filename}{^.+\\.([a-z0-9]+)\$}{\$1}}
> >

[...]
>
> A follow-up: I think your scheme would not catch upper-case file
> extensions. At least it didn't in my testing. So I changed your
> FILENAME_EXT definition to:
>
> FILENAME_EXT = ${lc:${sg{$mime_filename}{^.+\\.([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\$}{\$1}}}


Then it's better to use

    FILENAME_EXT = ${sg{${lc:$mime_filename}}{^.+\\.([a-z0-9]+)\$}{\$1}}


Lowercase $mime_filename and don't care about A-Z in the extension. :-)

> The file still contains only lower-case extensions to be blocked.


That's not a problem as you're lowercasing the extension before the
lookup is done.

-- 
    -- Kirill Miazine <km@???>