[Esd-l] Stripping Attachments?

[John D. Hardin]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Paul Thomas wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, John D. Hardin wrote:
> 
> > NB: .eml is hazardous, as it's typically base64 encoded and thus not
> > (yet) subject to defanging or attachment rules. Also note that .rtf
> 
> What do you mean 'attachment rules', it's at least 'mangled'?

Oh, If you're mangling EML you're probably okay then.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. If the EML attachmetn itself has any
attachments, they won't be sanitized.

> How does the sanitizer handle .rtf other than mangling?

If it's actually .DOC format, it scans for macroe if you have macro
scanning enabled.

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