Virus Scanner -- Mail Sent in Outlook Rich Text Format

[Julian Field]

At 16:04 09/10/2001, you wrote:
>Something from one of my Administrators.. What should I tell him?

*Some* winmail.dat attachments cannot be decoded and scanned. There is an
option near the bottom of the mailscanner.conf configuration file to enable
you to deliver these anyway. There are no better TNEF decoders in existence
I'm afraid, unless someone wants to write me a better one.

I have tried to get the file format spec out of Microsoft, but to no avail :-(

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:44:00 -0400
>From: Chuck Liggett <chuckl at nacs.net>
>To: "Boehnlein, Greg" <damin at nacs.net>
>Subject: Virus Scanner -- Mail Sent in Outlook Rich Text Format
>
>Greg:
>
>All mail being sent in outlook Rich Text Format (an option in Outlook
>97/2K/XP)
>is not scannable by the Mail Scanner and the mail scanner removes the Rich
>Text
>attachments from the message declaring them as follows:
>
>=======
>    This is a message from the MailScanner E-Mail Virus Protection Service
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    The original e-mail attachment "WINMAIL.DAT"
>    was believed to be infected by a virus and has been replaced by this
> warning
>    message.
>
>    If you wish to receive a copy of the *infected* attachment, please
>    e-mail support and include this entire in your request. Alternatively, you
>    can call the Help Desk at (216)-619-2000, with the contents of this
>    message in hand.
>
>    At Tue Oct  9 10:39:07 2001 the virus scanner said:
>       Could not parse Outlook Rich Text attachment
>    Note to Help Desk: Look on the MailScanner in
>    /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine (message f99Ecqc01648).
>    --
>    Postmaster
>=======
>
>This is probably going to be a problem.  Any way we can have it ignore
>Rich Text
>attachments?  (Unfortunately, Rich Text Attachments could contain viruses).
>
>Thanks,
>Chuck

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