On Monday 08 November 2004 11:35 am, Kelson wrote:
> Brook Humphrey wrote:
> > I already have tested mimedefang and although better than the one clamav
> > uses it was no were near as good as ripmime. ripmime deals with the fring
> > stuff better. That is things that dont follow standards very well.
>
> Interesting. I'll have to do some testing. We're using MD for a lot of
> other purposes, but if ripmime does handle more cases, it might be worth
> adding another parser....
I can send you my shell scripts for piping these things if you like they make
it very easy to test different mime engines.
>
> > As for binhex
> > you will need to get the program for extracting those. It is a mac native
> > binary format that can be extracted but you will need the binhex tools to
> > do so. I never got it working completely but I did find the tools out
> > there to do it. For some reason clamav just doesn't want to deal with it.
>
> Hmmm, I recall it working under clam's extraction but not MD's, but
> looking back at the logs of our most recent testvirus.org run, the
> binhex attachments were caught by File::Scan. We run FS first, then
> anything that passes goes to clamd, which means that MIMEDefang's own
> MIME parser was able to extract it.
>
> Since the MIMEDefang author recently took over mainaining MIME::Tools, I
> went into the changelog, and sure enough, binhex support was added two
> months ago in version 5.412. It looks like it uses a perl module rather
> than the binhex binary.
That would explain it it has been about 4 or 5 months since I really messed
with this stuff in depth. Speaking of witch I still need to upgrade to 80 so.
>
> (Speaking of the binhex binary, for anyone reading this, Red Hat/Fedora
> includes it in the macutils package.)
Yes same for mandrake if I remember correctly.
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