renattach is a stream filter that can identify and act upon potentially dangerous e-mail attachments. It's a highly effective way of protecting users from harmful mail content (virii and worms) by disabling or removing attachments that may be accidentally executed by the user. It is written in pure C and can quickly process mail with little overhead. Unlike a conventional virus scanner, there are no specific virus or worm definitions. Instead, it identifies potentially dangerous attachments based on filename extension and on encoded body content. It can be used from within sendmail, postfix, procmail, or pretty much anywhere else.
