Re: [exim] caution to those blocking files by extension

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Autor: Mike Meredith
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] caution to those blocking files by extension
Sometime around Sat, 4 Nov 2006 15:17:22 +0000, it may be that Chris
Lightfoot wrote:
> GNU file(1) recognises PE
> executables OK (though a look at the magic file suggests
> that actually the way they do it would be easy to evade so
> better to write a little program to do it, I think; it's
> probably doable as a regex on the base64 version of the
> data).


You mean like http://zonky.org/notes/exim-wexec-block.html ?

Not sure how effective it is because I don't use it on a high enough
volume server.

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