Cool, this is far better then some of the recent things I've found. Hell
in a recent contract I found that when I tried to send myself some tools
from home they were rejected because they were exe's and with the advice
in the rejection that I should rename them to get around the restriction!
Don't ya just love lotus notes servers <grin>. What other e-mail systems
do thing like this beside HP openmail?
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Thu, 4 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Some enterprise email systems, such as HP OpenMail, have "type
> coersion" capabilities which can look at file contents and then force
> files to be handled as belonging to a specific type.
>
> For example, we use OpenMail to coerce all files with a DOS/Windows
> executable signature (first two bytes are "MZ") to be treated as EXE
> files ... which we summarily discard and replace with a warning message.
>
> So your method wouldn't work to smuggle an EXE in to *our* network.
> 'Course, if you're really determined you can just pack it up in some
> obscure format ... say by binhexing it, then bzipping it...
>
> > Well, if yer scanning for exe files, and I have an account
> > there, can't I just rename the exe to say something.xex, come in
> after, open
> > and save the attachment, then rename it with the exe extention?
> Point
> > being, merely scanning for exe files does not really prevent there
> being
> > sent in, just eliminates those from the general populace.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ron DuFresne
>
>
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