Problem with filename ruleset for "Remove These Headers"

[Julian Field]

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Mike wrote:

>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Julian Field
>>
>>If it can work out what you mean without any filename matching, it will
>>do so. But as the header names are just arbitrary pieces of text, there
>>is no way for it to know what you meant.
>>
>>It's as intelligent as I could make it, but in this case there is no way
>>to tell.
>>
>>
>
>It seems a bit strange to be dependent on the ".rules" extension to determine if it's a file/ruleset. Isn't it possible to determine that it's a file when the argument of the option starts with "%rules-dir%", or "/", or whatever? Or maybe just a simple "[ -f <argument> ] && read-from-file" (obviously not in perl, but bash notation ;-)?
>
>
And for options which can take a filename? Or for options that take a
string which could start with "/" or could happen to be the name of a
file on your system? (e.g. Silent Viruses). There are lots of reasons
why this doesn't work in practice.

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