On Monday 08 March 2004 1:44 pm, Brett Simpson wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: > >Nope, that won't work. Besides blocking purely based on name we also run > >'file' on the attachments and block based on the type of file returned by > >'file'. So, a windows executable renamed from foo.exe to foo.txt will > >still be caught as a banned 'exe' file - blocking only based on the name > >would be way too primitive. > > How did you impliment this? I like the idea of checking the file to see > if the extension matches what is returned by the file command.
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