blocked ietf drafts.

[Julian Field]

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The IETF use obscure features of some RFC's for no apparent reason.
Their favourite is the "External Message Body" which no-one else in the
world uses, nor have ever used.

Fortunately the IETF usually also put links in their messages to where
you can download the messages from a web server, which is what you
should do.

Pablo Allietti wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:42:29PM -0800, Mark Nienberg wrote:
>
>
>>Pablo Allietti wrote:
>>
>>
>
>i do this change to yes. but nothing happend always messages mark as
>Blocked Content. :(
>
>another idea?
>
>thnaks
>
>
>
>>>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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