Filetypes in email attachments.

[justin.vanwinkle]

Hello everyone,

I'm writing a simple spam filter as a project, partly to learn python.
I want to filter by filetype, however, the mime content type I get
using .get_content_type gives limited and possibly bogus information,
especially when trying to detect viruses or spam.

I would like to use the magic file to detect the filetype, if this is
possible. I have the attachement stored and (generally) decoded in a
variable.

Justin

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

I would like to use the magic file to detect the filetype, if this is
possible. I have the attachement stored and (generally) decoded in a
variable.

There is a Python binding to the libmagic library, see

http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2003/000055.html

Meanwhile, this binding is part of the standard file(1) distribution.

Regards,
Martin