[Esd-l] 2 questions about double extension check

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Tue Aug 17 13:13:54 PDT 2004


On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Michael Meltzer wrote:

> thank you very much. I changed my /etc/procmailrc as suggested.

Let us know how well it works! :)

> > At the moment only $MANGLE_EXTENSION extensions are checked against
> > the poisoned filenames list.
> 
> I think this applies to the last/real extension. What I ment is
> the last but one extension. Sorry for my inaccurate question.

Ah! Okay, that makes sense.

No, you can't get it from an environment variable, but you could but
an explicit list of extensions using the (one|two|three|four)
syntax into the poisoned files list.

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