block password protected zip files ?

["ip.guy" <ip...@optushome.com.au>]

hi all.

is spamassassin able to block password protected zip files ?
i know there are other tools that are better used for the job...

Re: block password protected zip files ?

[Evan Platt <ev...@espphotography.com>]

At 06:05 PM 6/21/2004, you wrote:
>hi all.
>
>is spamassassin able to block password protected zip files ?
>i know there are other tools that are better used for the job...

SpamAssassin isn't able to _block_ anything.

Second to that, no, spamassassin isn't able to determine if an attached 
file is a ZIP file, much less password protected.

That's not what SA is designed for.

Evan 

Re: block password protected zip files ?

[Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>]

At 11:05 AM 6/22/04 +1000, ip.guy wrote:
>is spamassassin able to block password protected zip files ?

No.

SpamAssassin does not evaluate binary parts of the email at all, as they 
are discarded by it's mime parser. Thus, it would be impossible for it to 
tell a password-protected zipfile from any other zipfile, as all it would 
see (at best) would be the mime boundaries describing the attachment.

(Note: The discarding of binary parts is a feature which keeps improving as 
SA goes along. It's not perfect, and does miss some things, but certainly 
this feature makes SA wholly unacceptable for the job).


>i know there are other tools that are better used for the job...

Good, then you know what to do.