On Sat, 09 Mar 2002, Michael Shields wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> MIMEdefang <http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/> does exactly
>> what you want. It will strip away executable files and discard them
>> completely for you -- perfect filtering of the "junk" you get.
>
> It looks like MIMEdefang just strips away the "unsafe" part, which
> doesn't seem to really help.
Depends on your point of view, I guess. ;)
> I don't care whether the executable itself appears in my mailbox or
> just the shell of the message; there is no safety issue for me, and it
> doesn't save me any time or effort to read a "defanged" message.
Sure.
> The only reason for someone to send me an executable is that they have
> contracted a virus, so I want to just discard those emails. Is there
> an off-the-shelf way to do that? (I would be surprised if not.)
I thought that you could tell MIMEdefang to discard the messages
entirely when they contained unwanted parts...
...and according to the old news on the site:
18 December 2000 -- Version 0.7 of MIMEDefang is released. This adds the
ability to silently discard messages, includes a test suite, and has
safer handling of temporary files.
So, you should be able to tell it to just junk the message sight-unseen.
Daniel
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