Blocking attachments instead of just removing them

[Julian Field]

At 14:40 28/08/2003, you wrote:
>But when it removes the attachments listed in that file, doesn't it then
>send on the rest of the message to the intended recipient?  That is what I
>am hoping to stop.

In which case,
Deliver Cleaned Messages = no



>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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> >
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