External message bodies cannot be scanned

[Julian Field]

At 14:10 29/11/2002, you wrote:
>I have the same problem! But it is not the zip attachment, the problem is
>that the message is on pieces.
>In my case all the MS Outlook users use to do that.

If they send mail attachments in pieces, then there is no way to virus scan
the file.
At the moment the "Virus Scanning = yes" switch covers all the content
scanning, i.e. the virus scanning, the attachment filename scanning and the
other content checks.

It's a bit late for me to rename "Virus Scanning", so I'm not sure what I
could call the 3 or 4 options that would be needed to cover all these cases.

>Vilma Alvarez
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Nerijus Baliunas" <nerijus at USERS.SOURCEFORGE.NET>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 8:37 AM
>Subject: External message bodies cannot be scanned
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I don't use any commercial virus scanners (I have "Virus Scanning = yes"
> > and "Virus Scanners = none"), only Attachment Filename Checking is used.
> > How can I allow zip attachments to go through?
> >
> > From: MailScanner <postmaster at xxx.lt>
> > Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:26:21 +0200
> > Subject: Warning: E-mail viruses detected
> >
> > The following e-mail messages were found to have viruses in them:
> >
> >     Sender: xxx
> > IP Address: xxx
> >  Recipient: xxx
> >    Subject: pianinas piano[1][2].zip [1/2]
> >  MessageID: gATDJGq9022006
> >     Report: External message bodies cannot be scanned and are removed
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nerijus
> >

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