Outlook Rich Text Format messages - how to let through?

[Glenn Steen]

On 08/02/06, Rick Cooper <rcooper at dwford.com> wrote:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]On Behalf Of Stephen
> > Swaney
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 12:21 PM
> > To: 'MailScanner discussion'
> > Subject: RE: Outlook Rich Text Format messages - how to let through?
> >
> >
> >
> [..]
> >
> > http://ytnef.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > I quote from the Sourceforge page:
> >
> > "ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams (winmail.dat). Unlike other
> > similar programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal
> > entries for easy import. It can also create vCard entries from
> > contact cards
> > and vTodo entries from task entries. It also has a Perl script that can be
> > used in procmail recipes to automatically reformat incoming mail
> > appropriately."
> >
> > It might be possible rework this code to plug into MailScanner as
> > a "Generic
> > Virus Scanner".
> >
> > Steve
> >
>
> I looked at this and I don't think it would work as a generic virus scanner
> (would be called at the wrong time), but it doesn't look like it would be
> too difficult to incorporate into MailScanner. However, the ytnefprocess.pl
> has a couple of short commings I can see:
>         1. It uses a lot of backticks, they could be replaced by internal perl in
> most cases, except the external call to
>            /usr/bin/ytnef. That could be handled by SafePipe easily.
>         2. It takes it's input from STDIN and outputs to STDOUT. That could be
> changed to file I/O easy enough
>
> Since it would have to be called before the tnef handling it would have to
> be called at the top of the explode function so the new attachments could be
> extracted and scanned (I assume, Julian?). I would think this would be
> better made a function and perhaps it could be used like the unrar where a
> check for /usr/bin/ytnef is made and it's used if there and the calling
> block is ignored if it's not there. The tests I did seemed to be fast and
> created regular attachments from the tnef junk so I am thinking of patching
> it in for my own installs but I am wondering what Julian thinks as far as
> main-streaming it?
>
> I attached a copy of the perl script I used in testing
>
> Rick
>
Hi Rick,

Jules is on a 10-day holiday... Remind me to remind you in
approximately 9 days  to "reopen" this thread (assuming it's gone
slumbering by then), so he doesn't miss this one.
Cheers,
--
-- Glenn
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