No one said you could not use an alternate hosted e-mail address for this express purpose.
Plus, most of the big e-mail system don't accept .zip and never will, I might guess. Regards, Michael -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Monaghan Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: .bin files Good day list. I just finished a discussion with a company called Mindjet (http://www.mindjet.com/). The discussion was regarding their sending .bin files within a modified .zip file into us. Our environment is made up of a front line smtp server with Antigen for SMTP on it. In there we obviously look for viruses and .exe files, etc. One of the file formats we currently block is .bin. This decision goes back to before '98 when there was a published file type listing that said basically there is no reason to accept .bin, .sys, .com, etc. types of files. Now, while this, in itself will be a problem with this company, the technician dropped another bomb on me and said that Office 2007 will be using .bin files and compression to send documents, etc. He also mentioned more capabilities of scripting being done from within these attachments. I won't go into my thoughts about the problems this creates, but rather, what you all are doing in your own companies about this. Should I go ahead and remove the .bin files from being denied? Is the scanning / security stuff on XP and within the systems themselves good enough I don't need to filer out files any more? Thanks. Felis demulcta mitis ... Alan G. Monaghan [ MCSE+I - Win4.0/ MCSE - Win2k/ BJCP # C0389(Recognized) Ò¿Ó¬ ] Systems Administrator Gardner Publications, Inc. *Phone ...... 1-513-527-8867 *Fax ........ 1-513-527-8801 *Cell ....... 1-513-378-0919 *E-mail ..... [EMAIL PROTECTED] *URL ........ http://Bullwinkle.GardnerWeb.Com/ _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
