How about using qmail to bounce incoming mail with specific subject title or
header? Anyone knows about it?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron DuFresne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 10:20 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Re: Removing attachments from email
>
>
>
> 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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