Daniel Shahaf wrote on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 13:44:03 +0300:
> Rejecting to the OP doesn't seem to be an option.  (Rejecting to
> a constant address /is/ an option, but it'd be all rejections, not just
> 'bad attachment' rejections.)
> 
> Seems the option we do have is to ask for some more filename extensions
> to be allowed.
> 
> 
> So, can we compile a list of extensions we'd like to allow on
> attachments?
> 

Bootstrapping:

*.diff
*.patch
(extension-less)



Once we have a list I'll feed it back to infra to effect the changes.


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> 
> > Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:50:50 +0000 (UTC)
> > From: "Gavin (JIRA)" <j...@apache.org>
> > To: danie...@apache.org
> > Subject: [jira] [Commented] (INFRA-3724) attachments sent get dropped
> >     without notification to either sender or receiving list
> > Message-ID: 
> > <1763775179.36025.1308901850607.javamail.tom...@hel.zones.apache.org>
> > 
> > 
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> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3724?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13054294#comment-13054294
> >  ] 
> > 
> > Gavin commented on INFRA-3724:
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > I dont think at this stage we'll apply fixes globally. And moderators will 
> > not appreciate sending all rejected messages to them (you can not say 
> > afaict 'send  rejected messages with attachments' , its all rejected 
> > messages get sent or they all get dropped.)
> > 
> > so, I would say to cure this for Subversion is to tell us what you want to 
> > do there? I can removed some MIME types from the mimeremove file for the 
> > dev/user lists if it will help.
> > Note that .diff and .patch files are not categrized and dropping say 
> > application/octet-stream will not help in these cases (.dump it will)
> > 
> > thoughts?
> > 
> > > attachments sent get dropped without notification to either sender or 
> > > receiving list
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >                 Key: INFRA-3724
> > >                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3724
> > >             Project: Infrastructure
> > >          Issue Type: Improvement
> > >      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
> > >          Components: Mailing Lists
> > >         Environment: subversion-dev list
> > >            Reporter: Daniel Shahaf (äñ§€¥£¢)
> > >            Assignee: Gavin
> > >
> > > When people send attachments to dev@svn it commonly happens that the 
> > > attachments don't reach the list and neither the sender nor the list is 
> > > notified (by the MTAs) of the dropped/missing attachment.  Asking people 
> > > to re-send with a *.txt (or *.zip) extension allows the attachment to get 
> > > through.
> > > This issue requests that attachments either get through or either the 
> > > sender or the list is notified of their having been stripped.
> > 
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