Blocking attachments instead of just removing them

[Julian Field]

At 13:58 28/08/2003, you wrote:
>A suggestion for future versions.  Would it be possible to create a
>separate, new setting that allows you to block a list of given
>attachments?  I feel like with the latest round of viruses, many would find
>that feature useful.  That way, if I run MailScanner along with a virus
>scanner and tell it that any e-mail it finds with
>a .scr, .pif, .bat, .exe, .vbs, can simply be delted without notification
>to the sender.  Any other viruses found (such as a macro virus in a Word
>document) would be cleaned and sent on.  I have seen several of these macro
>viruses still floating around.

Already there. See /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf.

To get the fine-grained "sender notification" control, I implemented that a
day or two ago for someone else, and it is in the beta release I have just
published.

>By the way, thank you very much for all the responses.  I'm sold on the
>product, but I sure wish it had the feature above.

It already has :-)



>At 23:06 27/08/2003, you wrote:
> >I was planning on implementing virus scanning with MailScanner in the
> >near future (I probably should have mentioned that).  If I set Deliver
> >Cleaned Messages = no , won't it also block any messages that contain
> >viruses that have been successfully cleaned?
>
>Yes, but that forms a very small %-age of total infected mail these days,
>so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
>
> >   Also, will that setting effect spam
> >messages?
>
>Only infected spam.
>
>
> >At 21:39 27/08/2003, you wrote:
> > >I am new to MailScanner, however I must say I am very impressed so
> > >far. I am attempting to block all e-mail messages with certain
> > >attachments (.scr, .pif, etc . . .) as I'm sure many admins are right
> > >now.  I have figured out how to remove those attachments and then
> > >insert a message in the body and send it on to the intended recipient
> > >but I would like to stop the messages with these attachments all
> > >together.  Note I am not running MailScanner with any antivirus (I
> > >already had a gateway antivirus running on another machine).
> >
> >Deliver Cleaned Messages = no
> >
> >
> > >Thank you very much in advance.
> > >
> > >lists at trcintl.com
> >
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