TNEF problem

[brandon pearson (BITS)]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: S.R.Patterson [mailto:S.R.Patterson at SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 8:42 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: TNEF problem
>
>
>Finally it's VERY worthey of note that since this method aborts without
>unpacking the attachment there is no guarantee that viruses won't get
through
>inside tnef type attachments.  If you're worried perhaps you (Jules) can
check
>on the return code of tnef and if it's -1 (failure) then you reject the
>attachment as "Unexpandable archive, rejected" or something?  Or do you
already
>do this?
>
>Steve

Hi,
  We are running mailscanner 2.42 with TNEF 1.0.1. We are seeing a number of
mails where TNEF gets stuck and aborted after 2 minutes and the mail is then
delivered to the recipient.

Is there any way to quarantine these unscanned mails/attachments?

Thanks,

Brandon