Detecting and filtering executable attachments

[Thomas Nilsson]

On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 09:46:13 -0500, Barnabo, Chris wrote:

>I'd like to write a filter (or group of filters, if necessary) that 
>detects any executable attachments attached to an incoming e-mail message 
>(i.e. any .COM, .EXE, .BAT, etc.)  I want to make sure the filter is 
>detecting an actual MIME or UUE attachment, not just the occurence of 
>".COM" somewhere in the text of a message.  Can anyone assist me to 
>properly detect these?

I do that in a REXX script here. For the extraction of the files I use a little utility which I found that is called munpack. 
My version seems to be contained in a file called mpack15emx.zip


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