Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:59:55AM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: > >>Ugh, looks like SourceForge installed a lame text filter that attempts >>to do virus protection (incorrectly, brokenly)... So my email didn't get >>through. > > > Just in case you are curious, it's the "standard" exim mime filter, and it's > been there almost forever. > http://www.exim.org/system_filter.exim > > To save on resources, however, it doesn't do real parsing, it only does > regex matching, which can obvioulsy be fooled.
You'd have thought the least a header regexp would do is bind to the start of the line! > That said, sf.net shouldn't be in the business of scanning mail and spend > the resources on installing a distributed virus scanning infrastructure. > It's just a quick and dirty check to cut off 99% of the crap. Fair argument. > Right now, it's either that, or you getting *all* the viruses send to > sf.net. Heh, I never get any viruses - see the appended .sig. Having said that, not that many people who subscribe to sf.net lists also subscribe to our service. >> save to /var/spool/exim/rejects/embeddedmimeattachement >> generated by message filter >> failed to lock mailbox >>/var/spool/exim/rejects/embeddedmimeattachement (lock file): >> retry timeout exceeded > > Ah, yeah, another 2G came in, the file had to be rotated (more than 10G > blocked already, and counting) We're stopping over 20,000 klez's a day now :-) Matt _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
