Bart Silverstrim wrote: > I find it interesting though that I've yet to hear from anyone > commenting on my proposal to create a filter that will extract and > convert all emails into pure text, or reformat it so only certain > things can get through as an attachment with a pure text message so it > would be "defanged" of scripts, web content, potential scripting > exploits, etc...I'm honestly beginning to wonder how hard that would be > to make and whether it may be of use for some sites. Draconian, yet it > would be extremely handy in stopping the maliciousness of viruses or > spam tricks...dynamically rewriting all email to a "standard" format. > > Anyone? Does this already exist? A prefilter thing...not halfway to > the task, like using MIMEDefang, but a whole "here's the email stripped > of HTML and in a standard format for the mail system" type filter...
That, in itself, would be a fairly straight forward task to create something like you suggest. It sounds harder than it is. I'm not saying it would be a five minute job, of course :) I love it when people mention draconian. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling :) Matt _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
