NAME


mimecheck - determine the type of the MIME encoded of an attachment mimezip - detect the type of MIME encoded zip archive in an attachment mimebzip - detect the type of MIME encoded bzip2 data in an attachment mimegzip - detect the type of MIME encoded gzip data in an attachment

SYNOPSIS


mimecheck boundary [file] mimezip boundary [file] mimebzip boundary [file] mimegzip boundary [file]

DESCRIPTION


The scripts mimecheck, mimezip, mimebzip, and mimegzip can be used to determine the contents of MIME encoded attachments of the type application/octet-stream. The scripts require the boundary as provided in the headers and/or bodys of mails with enclosed attachments. The scripts read from standard input if no file was provided and write out the detected MIME type to standard out.

EXAMPLE


A short filter rule used by procmail(1) to check for DOS executables in MIME encoded zip archives found in many attachments:

BLANK="[        ]+" TYPE="${BLANK}multipart/(alternative|mixed)"

:0 * $ ^Content-Type:${TYPE};(${BLANK}|$)*boundary=[\"’]?\/[^ \"’;]+ {         BOUNDARY="${MATCH}"         TYPE=""

        :0 B * $ ^Content-Transfer-Encoding:${BLANK}base64         {                 TYPE=‘mimecheck ${BOUNDARY}‘

                :0                 * TYPE ?? application/x-zip                 {                         TYPE=‘mimezip ${BOUNDARY}‘                 }         }

        :0         * TYPE ?? executable.*DOS         * TYPE ?? DOS.*executable         /dev/null }

there is no guarantee that this piece of a procmailrc(5) file will work.

SEE ALSO


procmailrc(5), file(1), sed(1), mimencode(1).

COPYRIGHT


2007 SuSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany, 2007 Werner Fink.

AUTHORS


Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>.

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