On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Keith Patton wrote: > I am getting compaints of email not being delivered. I look in the > logs and they are being bounced with "MIME type message/partial not > accepted here". Sure enough the filter blocks this type of message. So > like any good computer is does exactly what you tell it.
message/partial is a huge, gaping, enormous, cavernous, overwhelming security risk. (Was I clear about my feelings?) message/partial lets you slip malware under the radar of scanners. It lets you evade any kind of sensible filtering policy. The message/partial MIME type is an abomination that cements in my mind the belief that MIME was a mistake. More concretely: message/partial lets you split up a virus so that it can evade server-side virus scanners. It will then be reconstructed by the mail reader and do its damage. > I need something because mgmt is likely to tell me just not to block > and I would like to have some valid reasons as to why they are being > blocked. Tell mgmt that if they permit message/partial, they might as well throw away server-side scanning and turn off their anti-virus software. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
