RE: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-28 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:10 PM -0400 Dave Koontz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, in our environment, inline images do get extensive use from our users (College Students, Faculty). Much of their email is for entertainment value, and many email jokes make use of Inline images of a

Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread Jim Maul
Matt wrote: Hi, What would I need to do to just outright block all e-mail that has an inline gif or jpg (or multiple ones)? You should do this in whatever program you have calling SA/AV/etc.. SA itself doesn't block anything. -Jim

Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread jdow
From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, What would I need to do to just outright block all e-mail that has an inline gif or jpg (or multiple ones)? 1) Be willing to accept a large number of lost legitimate emails. 2) If you use procmail it's quite easy to look for files with a large number of

RE: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
-Original Message- From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 08:09 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, What would I need to do to just outright block all e-mail

Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread Matt
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, What would I need to do to just outright block all e-mail that has an inline gif or jpg (or multiple ones)? 1) Be willing to accept a large number of lost legitimate emails

Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread Stuart Johnston
Matt wrote: 1 - No legit e-mail should have in-line gifs.. they should be attached. I guess I'm missing something. What is the difference between an inline gif and an attached gif?

Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread Matt
An inline gif is INLINE with HTML.. an attached GIF is attached to the message and the message is in MIME-text format. HTML does not belong in e-mails. On 6/27/06, Stuart Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt wrote: 1 - No legit e-mail should have in-line gifs.. they should be attached. I

Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Stuart Johnston wrote: Matt wrote: 1 - No legit e-mail should have in-line gifs.. they should be attached. I guess I'm missing something. What is the difference between an inline gif and an attached gif? inline is an HTML-format email with text and images

Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread Stuart Johnston
Matt wrote: An inline gif is INLINE with HTML.. an attached GIF is attached to the message and the message is in MIME-text format. HTML does not belong in e-mails. Well, that's easy then. If you want to block all html messages, just score up: HTML_MESSAGE If you want to only hit those

RE: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread Dave Koontz
John D. Hardin Wrote: inline is an HTML-format email with text and images interspersed. When the message is rendered the images will be embedded in the message body text. attached is the images attached like any other type of file. I have had exactly one instance to use inline images in the

Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Kelson wrote: Until something comes along that (a) handles all the formatting that people want to be able to do, including adding silly backgrounds, changing the font or color for no reason, Why in the world do we need to support/encourage *that* nonsense? and

RE: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread Dave Koontz
this tool to filter various addresses that need to receive ONLY plain text emails. Works well. -Original Message- From: John D. Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:28 PM To: Kelson Cc: SpamAssassin Users Subject: Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images On Tue, 27

Re: Blocking all inline GIF or JPG Images

2006-06-27 Thread Kelson
John D. Hardin wrote: On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Kelson wrote: Until something comes along that (a) handles all the formatting that people want to be able to do, including adding silly backgrounds, changing the font or color for no reason, Why in the world do we need to support/encourage *that*