Re: per-user attachment blocking?

2015-04-09 Thread @lbutlr
On Apr 8, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Noel Jones njo...@megan.vbhcs.org wrote: Alternately, reconsider blocking all executable attachments as a site-wide policy. That will take care of a lot of problems, and is becoming a fairly common policy. I blocked a long list of dangerous attachment types at

Re: per-user attachment blocking?

2015-04-09 Thread Sebastian Nielsen
I would say its better to strip unauthorized attachments instead of blocking the whole message. A notice could be appended to message informing about the stripped attach. This because some email clients/MTAs insert their own attachments, and user cannot control this. The attachments in many

Re: per-user attachment blocking?

2015-04-09 Thread @lbutlr
On Apr 9, 2015, at 03:16, Sebastian Nielsen sebast...@sebbe.eu wrote: I would say its better to strip unauthorized attachments instead of blocking the whole message. Bouncing is much better because the sender will no nearly immediately that their message failed and why. A notice could

Re: per-user attachment blocking?

2015-04-09 Thread Sebastian Nielsen
We’re not talking about rejecting all attachments, just executable ones. Well, I’m not. Thats a entirely different thing. I tought you were talking about any potentially harmful attachment, eg blocking all attachments except a couple of 100% safe ones like TXT, PNG and such. Some providers

Re: per-user attachment blocking?

2015-04-08 Thread Noel Jones
On 4/8/2015 1:00 PM, CSS wrote: Google’s not feeding me much on doing this on a per-user basis… I’d like to give users the option to block emails with certain attachments - zip, exe, etc. I know that server-wide the simplest option is header checks. I’m open to adding another milter to

per-user attachment blocking?

2015-04-08 Thread CSS
Google’s not feeding me much on doing this on a per-user basis… I’d like to give users the option to block emails with certain attachments - zip, exe, etc. I know that server-wide the simplest option is header checks. I’m open to adding another milter to my chain of milters. I already have