FW: Blocking attachments instead of just removing them

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 28 August 2003 3:13 pm, Kyle Harris wrote:

> But when MailScanner blocks the attachments mentioned below, doesn't it
> then send on the rest of the message to the intended recipient?  That is
> what I am trying to stop since the new round of viruses send no relevant
> message.

Only if you have asked MS to deliver cleaned messages, which it sounds as
though you do not want.

Therefore set "Deliver Cleaned Messages = No"

Antony.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antony Stone [mailto:Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK]
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 8:14 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Blocking attachments instead of just removing them
>
> On Thursday 28 August 2003 1:58 pm, Kyle Harris 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.
>
> How is what you are asking for different from what you can already do
> with the "Filename Rules" and "Filetype Rules" settings?
>
> I'm not sure, but it looks to me like what you want is already there.
>
> We use MailScanner to block all .com .exe .pif .bat .scr files without
> caring what's in them, virus or not.
>
> Antony.

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