[geeks] How much aggrevation to install/configure demime?

Mike Nicewonger twmaster at twmaster.com
Sat Apr 27 17:36:39 CDT 2002


On Saturday 27 April 2002 06:33 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> > I am getting a ton of the fucking klez viruses and I need to protect the
> > mailing lists I run (Mailman / sendmail) so how much pain is there to
> > installing demime? I am looking at the demime site and it is VERY unclear
> > as to what exactly it wants.
>
> If you're running supported architecture, there's always vilter, which
> will nab a lot more than klez.  It's here:
> http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Alexander.Talos/vilter/
>
> It's CPU-hungry, but it works like a charm.  It'll support about 50k
> messages daily on an Ultra 1E/170 with a goodly amount of memory.
>
I will have a look at that. My primary reason for wanting demime or a tool 
like it is to also stop list users from sending attachements (pics, vcards, 
etc.)

Mike N



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