[Esd-l] Stripping Attachments?

[John D. Hardin]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Paul Thomas wrote:

> So then to strip alot of file extentions, but allow eml files and
> have them mangled, I should exclude .eml from /etc/procmail/stripped
> rather than from MANGLE_EXTENSIONS?

eml would be in MANGLE but not in strip.
 
> > Sorry, I wasn't clear. If the EML attachmetn itself has any
> > attachments, they won't be sanitized.
> 
> Even if the .eml is mangled?

Right.

> I guess my above mangling question applies here also. But, are you
> saying if a .rtf file comes along, the Sanitizer checks to see if
> it is really a .DOC format then does the macro scan (if enabled)
> but if it fails to be a .DOC, goes ahead and mangles according to
> the MANGLE_EXTENSIONS list?

Correct.

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