[imp] Is it possible to filter out specific mime type attachements

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting "Aero Controls, Inc." <mis2@aerocontrols.com>:

| We have installed Imp 3.1 and we would like to disable the ability 
| for a user to download specific mime type attachements (ie, exe's, 
| zips, scr, etc) you know those that have the capacity to contain 
| malicious code.
| 
| In the webmasterworld.com forum I started a discussion about this and 
| there was input back that in version 2.1 there was a mime.php file 
| that you could ammend to disable the the download. But in this 
| current version I do not seem to be able to locate the section that 
| would allow us to do such a thing. Could some one point me in the 
| right direction.
| 

There is no way to selectively disable downloads for specific MIME types.  
All that is allowed is to disable viewing for a specific MIME type.

In any case, this is not something that IMP should really be doing anyway - 
you should have a separate mail filtering program (e.g. mimedefang or 
something similar) that 'rips' these unwanted MIME types out before it even 
reaches the user's mail queue.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder