On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:55:08PM -0700, Dave Warren wrote:
> Adrian Daminato wrote:
>
> >Emails will no longer be blankly rejected, as a better solution has been
> >found and tested (the rejecting was a temporary fix in any case, due to
> >the recent virus activity).
> >
> >Attachments will now be stripped from emails sent to
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED], but the content of the message will still be
> >delivered.
> >
> >Thank you
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Great... So now we still get the virus' message, just not attachment.
> Good thinking.
>
> Perhaps you should REJECT the messages (note: I did not say bounce)
> them, or virus scan and silently drop the infected messages?
>
There are some circumstances where we don't want to blindly reject any
emails just because there is an attachment. As well, certain MTAs will
send attachments with different Content-Type headers, making it
difficult to parse them for virii.
Our scanner already checks the messages, and converts them to text
(unless the virus definition files aren't up to date, which is rare),
however other business rules prevent us from applying a rejection to
virus infected emails across all our domains.
Part of the limitation to what solutions are available are due to what
mailing list software we use, and wanting to maintain this list in the
same method that has been done since day 1.
--
Adrian Daminato
Senior Systems Administrator, Tucows Inc.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
- Philip K. Dick
