MPEG file type

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Aug 11 21:13:01 IST 2003


At 21:25 11/08/2003, you wrote:
>It is worth noting that blocking Media files using File Rules is not
>effective,
>for that purpose, unless you have some cap on the attachment size through your
>MTA. The students in my institution got around MS by renaming their files to
>strange extenstions or no extentions. Conveniently, they e-mailed each other
>instructions on what would the original file name be. I discouraged that by
>setting a cap on the attachment size. They don't like me now, but mail is
>flowing faster than ever.

Which is one of the reasons I wrote the filetype checking in addition to
the filename checking
;-)
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