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[Eric H]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Zhang Ming(r3) wrote:

> Just installed a newest mailscanner in our new mail server. but when user
> want split the mail to several parts in outlook express to limitied the mail
> capacity, the mail scanner will reject such mail . can anyone tell me how to
> allow user to send such mails?

I think you are running up against the reality that the way Microsoft has
implemented this splitting up of large messages is fundamentally a bad
idea and hazardous from a security viewpoint.

The reason email admins limit attachment size is because email is not the
correct protocol for moving large files. Microsoft came up with a
squirrelly way to allow dimwits the ability to circumvent the admin's
attempt to stop the behavior and did it in their typical fashion of
complete lack of awareness of security. In other words, and please forgive
my language, it was really an asshole thing for Microsoft to do.

I find it amusing that this issue has gotten so much attention recently.
Outbreak has had this "capability" for quite some time now and fortunately
most people have remained unaware of it, but the recent BugTraq posting
lit a fire under a bunch of folks and now of course every script kiddie in
the world now knows about it. Another example of Microsoft costing
everyone else a ton of money to compensate for Microsoft ineptitude.

I just flat won't support Outlook doing that. Any person who truly needs
to split up a file to mail can do it much more appropriately with an
archiver and I notice the unix/linux "split" command is quite prevalent.

Eric