IMHO the stripping on Watchguard FW is overrated. E.g. MIME encoding of an XL file with Outlook will look like x-application-MSExcel or something but with Eudora it will look like x-application-xls. So you end up adding new MIME declarations all day instead of doing something productive. If you wish to strip attachments out of emails you would be better served buying Declude Virus and BANNING the extensions at the server. http://www.declude.com
Craig. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph Marlin Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Watchguard port 25 behavior I actually wound up doing that, but you lose all the other benefits of the SMTP proxy. You can no longer automatically strip an attachment, replace it with an attachment that explains why the attachment was stripped and let the rest of the email go on to its intended recipient. You can no longer strip off those overly informative headers from outgoing email that tell the computer name and ip address of the sender or any other headers you wish to strip from incoming or outgoing email. It is more difficult, though possible, I think, to stop all mail from, say, Taiwan or China or Russia or any other country (we deal with US Workers Comp Claims and there is no legitimate business reason to receive mail from those location. I miss quite a few things about it, but am trying to write rules that come close to approximating those features. Watchguard did an amazing job with attachments - far, far better than the results I am getting with rules. Can you write a rule to strip a .com attachment without "catching" emails with tag lines that include web sites? That surely is possible, but every attempt I have made so far winds up "capturing" emails that mention a .com address, whether web site or email address. Joseph Marlin Director of Information Technology Unified Health Services -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig Gittens Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Declude DNS report on IMail server Of course you can change Watchguard behaviour. I use them and all you have to do is create a user rule for port 25. That way it will stop soing it's default smtp proxy. Craig. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
