Interesting…
On 17 December 2015 at 09:45, Jeremy Harris <jgh@???> wrote:
> On 17/12/15 09:34, kuncho pencho wrote:
> > And is demime is deprecated? My exim version is 4.68.
>
> Yes, it was deprecated even back then:
>
> http://exim.org/exim-html-4.68/doc/html/spec_html/ch-content_scanning_at_acl_time.html
>
Looking at the *Exim Specification* for 4.86 (sections and page numbers
from the PDF file):
- The descriptions of the *$demime_errorlevel*, *$demime_reason and
$found_extension* variables on page 124–125 mention the *demime* condition
as being obsolete;
- But the description of the *demime* ACL condition itself (section
42.25, page 348) doesn't!
- Chapter 43 *Content scanning at ACL time* mentions *demime* as being
deprecated but in the context of building from source (which I guess quite
a few people don't do nowadays?) and in quite a buried way;
- But then chapter 43 goes on to give many examples of using *demime*,
which seems sort of odd; especially as on page 372 it goes so far as to say
"If your virus scanner cannot unpack MIME and TNEF containers itself, you
should use the demime condition (see section 43.6) before the malware
condition."
So to be fair, I can understand why it might be easy to miss that *demime* is
deprecated. :-)
Cheers,
Mike B-)
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