Flash (SWF) in e-mail

[Ivan Mirisola]

Perhaps this could be a new feature request.
I think this would make MailScanner more flexible

Thanks anyway,
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Ivan

Roland Ehle wrote:

>Hi Ivan,
>
>AFAIK there are only 2 possibilities: Allow Object Codebase = no or yes.
>So far there is no option, to use rulesets or allow only certain
>objects. The only thing you can do, is to use a ruleset to allow object
>Codebase from certain senders only.
>
>Regards,
>Roland
>Am Mit, 2002-11-13 um 00.21 schrieb Ivan Mirisola:
>
>
>>Hi Roland,
>>
>>I have seen many e-mail that have SWF attachments and the HTML tag
>><object> calls the filename on the mime part. It would be just like a
>>hidden attachment in an e-mail but you would see the SWF within the email.
>>I know that there is a virus that could be hidden in a SWF, that's why I
>>wanted to remove just the HTML part that reffers to the SWF and make the
>>SWF visible as an attachment.
>>Is it possible?
>>
>>Thanks again
>>
>>Roland Ehle wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi Ivan,
>>>
>>>
>>>Am Die, 2002-11-12 um 23.48 schrieb Ivan Mirisola:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is there a way to prevent all email containing object tags to go through
>>>>except when dealing with flash.
>>>>I would like to deliver such messages but not the really dangerous ones.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>No this is not possible.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>If it's not possible, is there a way to deliver the SWF files as
>>>>attachments and remove the HTML code that calls it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>As the swf files are not attached to the mail, but remain on the
>>>website, which is called in the IFrame-tag, there is no possibility.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Roland
>>>
>>>