Re: [exim] Saving attachments

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Author: Mike Brudenell
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To: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [exim] Saving attachments
To expand on Jeremy's comment…

Remember that not all MIME parts are attachments: some could be variants of
the body text (eg, HTML-formatted, RTF, etc) or containing embedded inline
images.

Cheers,
Mike B-)

On 20 April 2016 at 15:14, Jeremy Harris <jgh@???> wrote:

> On 20/04/16 14:28, John McMurray wrote:
> > Based on a recent thread Lena answered about unzipping attachments and
> > denying them if certain file types are found inside, I'd like to be able
> > to save the attachment so that I can manually see if it was a threat, or
> > if I need to ease up on what I'm blocking.
>
> Exim doesn't really deal much in the content of messages. The mime ACL
> gets you some of the way, but you'll be needing to identify
> mimeparts that are "attachments" yourself and use "decode" to get
> the mimepart saved.
> --
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
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