Don't scan outgoing mail

[Peter Peters]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:32:06 +0100, you wrote:

>> I have a issue where a department is usually sending *.reg files to
>> itself.. ex: joeshmoe at hotdogs.com sending to >> jim at hotdogs.com;
>> joe at hotdogs.com; brian at hotdogs.com with a .reg extension attachment that
>> mailscanner always scoops up. . Gee I guess I'm hungry to use this as a
>> dumb example.. Is there a way to NOT scan mail sent to and from its own
>> domain peers? And have mailscanner just scan mail that's departing from
>> its domain and entering its domain instead? Im afriad to allow .reg files
>> to be left alone and have someone send us a .reg extention virus from
>> outside our domain.
>
>Simpler to tell the people who need to send .reg files to rename them with
>e.g. .txt on the end first?

Do you think they will understand what you tell them? I have had
somebody not understanding the check for double extensions. And I have a
hard time explaining them what an extension is. That is the kind of
people disabling the "view extensions" on their system. They probably
don't even know they are sending files with that extension.

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Peter Peters
senior netwerkbeheerder,  Centrum voor Informatievoorziening,
Universiteit Twente,   Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
telefoon: +31 53 489 2301, fax:+31 53 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/civ