F-prot update

[Julian Field]

At 19:12 05/03/2004, you wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 13:27 05/03/2004, you wrote:
> > >I guess the f-prot update will mean more changes to MailScanner
> > I'm not going to rush out a new release for that, as MailScanner now
> > performs filename checks on the contents of Zip files anyway, even if they
> > are password-protected.
> > So it doesn't really give you very much extra value when used within
> > MailScanner.
>
>f-prot doesnt actually unzip the file and check it, it just adds new
>heuristics for filename size and extension.
>
>It would be nice if mailscanner could deal with password protected
>archives by extracting the password from the mail body...

That's a natural language parsing problem, which is incredibly difficult to
do with any reliability.
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