From: Ashley M. Kirchner (ashley@pcraft.com)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 08:52:39 CDT
>Jose Kahan writes:
>
>>Some thoughts...
>>
>>Besides filtering mail by MIME types (option ignore_types), it
>>would be useful if we could filter them by suffix or name.
>>
>>This way, even if you allow application/octet, you could avoid
>>having .pif files or other such files used by virii.
>>
While I don't mind this ability, I do question it though. Is this
really hypermail's responsibility? There are so many other applications
out there that are tied into a machine's MTA, or are before the LDA,
should hypermail become one of them as well? Next we're going to want
it to filter spam as well? Personally, I always saw hypermail for what
it was, an email to html archiver. It takes what you feed it and
creates html files for you. Why should it have any interaction with the
MTA or LDA? That's what things like SpamAssassin, MIMEDefang,
Stripmime, procmail, and the like are for.
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