[Esa-l] Re: Felix Navidad ... Stripping Attachments

[John D. Hardin]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Patrick wrote:

> Really good job with the sanitizer. Work great. 

You're welcome.

> I'm just wondering, why not delete everything EXCEPT a list of
> acceptable extension for your domain? That way, no need to update
> the sanitizer every week to add some new evil extension.

Because the sanitizer has grown rather than being designed...

> For my domain, accepting only .doc, .xls, .zip, .html and .txt would be
> just fine. 

That's what I'm proposing. In your case, you'd specify policy files
that implemented:

  allow *.doc, *.xls, *.zip, *.html, *.txt
  mangle/strip/poison everything else

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