[Esd-l] Mangle Extensions

[John D. Hardin]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Scott Taylor wrote:

> So, my question is this: if I take out the 's' from this line (beautiful 
> RegEx) of the html-trap but leave it on the only other line (L# 951) I can 
> see with 'xl', it won't get mangled, but will it still go through the macro 
> check or am I just going to break the mime type?
> 
> MANGLE_EXTENSIONS='...|xl[swt]|...'

Change it to ...|xt[wt]|...

xls wont' get mangled, but it will still get macro-scanned and will
still be subject to filename poisoning. Office files are "special"
that way.

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