In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
SRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 11:48 AM 12/23/99 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>and/or desirable to somehow elide or munge, at the very least, executable
>>e-mail attachments as they pass through a mail server
>
>Most servers can bounce messages with attachments, which is what
>I've been doing. I'm now trying to install demime.pl from
> http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html
>as a way to let the rest of the msg go out while stripping
>the attachment off.
What I was thinking was something more along the lines of an
MTA-inbuilt thingy that would strip out any and all *executable*
attachments, while leaving everything else intact.
Sort-of a ``mostly transparent Message Transport Agent''.
I think that might be a Good Thing, for the world at large,
because as far as I can see, executable attachments are almost
always evil, or, at the very least, extraordinarily dangerous.
