blocked ietf drafts.

[Mark Nienberg]

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Pablo Allietti wrote:

>hi all. i read the FAQs and the mailing list archives but i cant find
>any thing about the filename rules like ietf.
>
>i received many drafts a day from ietf and IAB community and the draft
>are like this
>
>draft-ietf-mpls-nodeid-subobject-04.txt
>draft-ignjatic-msec-mikey-rsa-r-00.txt
>draft-ietf-crisp-iris-dchk-02.txt
>
>
>are .txt all of them.
>
>i add a line in virus.scanning.rules
>
>FromOrTo:       *@ietf.org      no
>FromOrTo:       *@ops.ietf.org  no
>
>but nothing always this draft received by the subject {Blocked Content}
>and i need to go to spool to copy to my folder.
>
>do you have a solution for that ? is possible to allow this kind of
>filenames ?
>
>
>
The following is in MailScanner.conf.  Could this be the problem?

# Do you want to allow messages whose body is stored somewhere else on the
# internet, which is downloaded separately by the user's email package?
# There is no way to guarantee that the file fetched by the user's email
# package is free from viruses, as MailScanner never sees it.
# This feature is dangerous as it can allow viruses to be fetched from
# other Internet sites by a user's email package. The user would just
# think it was a normal email attachment and would have been scanned by
# MailScanner.
# It is only currently supported by Netscape 6 anyway, and the only people
# who it are the IETF. So I would strongly advise leaving this switched off.
# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
Allow External Message Bodies = no

Mark Nienberg

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