[Esd-l] Making procmail play "nice"

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Sat Sep 27 19:59:14 PDT 2003


On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 02:06 PM 9/27/2003, John D. Hardin wrote:
> 
> >If a disposition header is present (QUARANTINE, DISCARD) there's
> >nothing for the perl script to do (e.g. it can't veto the quarantine
> >disposition) so it's skipped.
> 
> As I understand it, the message is still searched for "poisoned"
> attachments, etc. This can (and does!) override the disposition 
> specified in the local rule in the case of Swen. To keep the
> Sanitizer from doing this, you have to make a delivering recipe
> that logs the attack and sends the message off to /dev/null.

Nope. The conditions controlling whether the main perl script runs:

     # MIME attachments and general header sanitizing
     :0
     * !$ ^X-Content-Security: \[${HOST}\] (QUARANTINE|DISCARD)

It does not run if a disposition header exists in the RFC822 headers.

Note, however, that the UUE checks *do* still take place. I overlooked
bypassing those.

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