On 15 Jan 2002, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> There's also "anomy", a perl script that does all this and more.I am
> using it via procmail/postfix and other than false alarming (warning
> message) on the Mandrake list coz its footer gets included as an
> attached text document.

What's wrong with a text/plain part?

> It picks up the usual virii attachments quite
> reliably, defangs html mail (embedded scripts etc in the html) and also
> perl/shell scripts etc (inserts an "exit" statement and comment at the
> top of the file so it cant be run by accident!)

Sounds very intrusive to me.

A decent mail program does not execute scripts. If my mailer (OK, it
probably has a number of buffer overflows somewhere, but it is rather sane
apart from that) gets some script, it simply displays it to me.

Now if some support guy sent Joe User a script to use, he had to work
around those strange (=unexpected) limitations

> It can also call a true
> viris scanner to scan documents you want to let through, but need
> checking internally.

IMHO you should not try to overly clean. I rather have a virus scanner
bounce a message than trying to clean it, and possibly creating an
incorrect content.

> The documents have some discussion on performance
> tuning, which from memory was quite acceptable considering what it is
> doing.A good first line for Linux users and

For linux users?

Linux users have decent mail clients (read: not many people used Outlook
& co. on linux lately)

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