SV: Fragmented messages

[Anders Andersson, IT]

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Rick [mailto:rick at PRIS.CA]
> Skickat: den 25 februari 2003 17:15
> Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Ämne: Fragmented messages
> 
> 
> Hello Group
> 
> I seem to be experiencing an occasional problem, it seems when someone
> tries to send a large attachment that is split into multi 
> messages using
> OE
> we get the following error:
>     Report: Fragmented messages cannot be scanned and are removed
> 
>     If you are using Microsoft Outlook, we strongly recommend 
> you change
> your
>     outgoing message format from "Rich Text" to "HTML" or 
> "Plain Text".
> 
> However in the mailscanner config file I have the following set, which
> is the only Microsoft OE specific settings I could find
>     Deliver Unparsable TNEF = yes
>     Allow IFrame Tags = yes
> 
> What am I missing?
> I really only want  mailscanner to check for viruses not 

Thats the problem, you cant check a splitt message for virus as far as I
know.
I think the best thing to do is to block this and dont let them threw. 
For the moment I dont know any virus thats doing this but Im just waiting
for
the first virus that will use this option to pass gateways 

> check to see if
> messages are corrupt or possibly problematic.
> 
> Thanks very much for the help
> 
> Regards
> Rick Noble
>