On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Nigel Horne wrote: ; On Thursday 17 Feb 2005 15:07, Tomasz Kojm wrote: ; > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:50:11 +0000 (GMT) ; > Andy Fiddaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ; > ; > > Kind of.. there's a limit for how many times the mail scanner is ; > > invoked, (such as for a message with zip containing message containing ; > > zip containing message...), but not for mime recursion.. i.e. ; > > parseEmailBody recurses through embedded MIME parts with no recursion ; > > checking. ; > ; > I can't help you here as my knowledge on a mail structure is very ; > limited. That limit and its implementation will have to be discussed ; > with Nigel. ; ; The recursive blocking was taken out some time ago after a LOT of pressure ; in this list and through personal emails (there used to be a hardcoded limit ; of 10 recursions). ; ; I am not about to start that argument again since it is the usual case of clamAV ; developers are damned if we do and damned if we don't.
The problem with the old limit was that it was hard coded and so was the behaviour when it was exceeded (IIRC it used to just not scan the additional nested parts). I can't understand why adding this option with configurable behaviour would be a problem, and I'd be happy to submit a patch if it has a chance of being accepted! Andy _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
