On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:21:21PM +0800, Lars Hansson wrote: | On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:05:02 +0100 | "Matt Sergeant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > My only recommendation is to write your own mail parser (or use the one | > I posted to the -dev list), and pass only the text of the email to | > SpamAssassin - make sure you strip off any attachments as they really | > slow down the processing. | | Hmmm...would it be safe to assume that any attachment type of text/<whatever> | should be scanned while anything else should not?
Some mailers have quite a bit of brain damage and will tag a plain text attachment as "application/octet-stream". Certainly any .exe, .scr, .pif, etc can be trashed (or simply rejected them at the MTA level). You don't really need to scan GIFs and JPEGs (included with some HTML mail). -D -- One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Redmond, where the Shadows lie. http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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