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[Julian Field]

At 13:33 28/09/2002, you wrote:
> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric H <erich at OLYPEN.COM> writes:
>     Eric> 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?
>
>     Eric> I think you are running up against the reality that the way
>     Eric> Microsoft has implemented this splitting up of large
>     Eric> messages is fundamentally a bad idea and hazardous from a
>     Eric> security viewpoint.
>
>Wait a sec. - I'm not a MS fan (quite the opposite) but spltting of
>large emails into parts has been "standard" for many years now under
>Unix as well as other Oses.; don't know whether its RFC or not though.

The point is that Microsoft OSes suffer a lot of viruses, and therefore any
message using this feature is very dangerous. Left in the hands of just the
Unix folks (with far fewer viruses around), it was never really a dangerous
thing to do.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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