Now that you have rephrased your question the answer is possibly. There is a
service that will do it for you. If you have never checked out a service
called MailZone I encourage you to do so. It is a mail prefiltering service
for companies. It gives you the option of not allowing exe's, and other
filetypes through to people.
It allows you to setup the filter so that when the message comes, the
recipient is sent a message telling them that a message with xyz has arrived
and to contact whoever you want to get access to the message.
Then only an administrator can release the message to the recipient.
The service also provides virus scanning, language filters, and various
other capabilities. I believe the address is http://www.allegro.net
Jason P. Wilcox
----- Original Message -----
From: "NB Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 8:45 AM
Subject: Removing attachments from email -- let me rephrase the question
> I think I need to make my original question more clear. What I'm
concerned
> about is automatic propagation of viruses where a virus takes over someone
> else's email (Outlook) and propagates itself by sending an executable
> attachment to everyone in that person's outbox. The virus spreads when
the
> recipient unwittingly opens the attachment. I'm not looking for a
> technological solution to internal sabotage, and I don't object to people
> distributing executable content -- I just don't want it happening
> automatically.
>
> I want to set things so that executable content cannot be sent to someone
> on my network without manual intervention. What I want to happen is that
> if someone tries to send a file that has an extension that is either an
> executable itself or matches any of the extensions that are
auto-associated
> with executables, the recipient gets the message with the attachment
> removed, and a note telling him that the sender has tried to send him
> executable content, and advising the recipient to contact the sender and
> ask him to rename the file with a different extension. Since this
requires
> collaboration between the sender and the recipient it will prevent in
large
> part attacks like the "I LOVE YOU" virus, while still allowing people to
> exchange information that they need to do their jobs.
>
> My question is, Is there a LINUX-based solution that will do this?
>
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