filtering file types vs. extensions

[Mariano Absatz]

That should be possible using the magic file and the logic that the file 
command uses (with that same file).

See:
man magic
man file


El 6 Jun 2003 a las 11:29, Bingham, Ryan escribió:

> Hi Julian,
> 
> This is just a feature question.  Some of the commercial products
> (Sybari's Antigen for Exchange comes to mind) that (try to) do what
> MailScanner does have the ability to discern the file type even if the
> extension does not match (e.g. spot a Windows executable file even if it
> doesn't have an .exe extension).
> 
> Is this something that would ever be possible with MailScanner?
> 
> Thanks again for an awesome program!!
> 
> Ryan


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