Rob Brown-Bayliss said: > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 03:43, Michael Leone wrote: > >> And there's the beauty of blocking executable attachments/running virus scans on your own mail server. I had no idea there was such a message to the list, since my MTA rejected it before I ever saw it. :-) > > Does it block all executables? A bit of a pain if some one is trying to send you something usefull?
Not at all. You just compress the executable - zip, sit, arj, whatever you want to use - before attaching. I allow thru all compressed archives types. I then use Amavis and F-Prot to unpack these compressed archives, and virus scan them. Here's the list of stuff I block - /^(Content-Disposition: attachment;.*|Content-Type:.*|\s+)(file)?name="?.*(\.|=2E)(lnk|hta|com|pif|vbs|vbe|js|jse|exe|bat|cmd|vxd|scr|shm|dll)"?$/ REJECT And that covers just about any virus-ladened executable attachment out there. And the AV scan is for everything else. The virus email yesterday had a supposed "gc.bat" as an attachment. Also blocked a 2nd one with a "style.bat" attachment, as well as rejecting one that came thru an open relay in the ORDB database. And then I run SpamAssassin for all users (me and a couple friends :-); it tags all suspected spam email, and I route it to a special folder. There are some false positives, but not many. Makes email a LOT more pleasant. :-) -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Member, LEAF Project <http://leaf.sourceforge.net> AIM: MikeLeone These are the memories which make me a wealthy soul ... Random Thought: -------------- _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
