blocked ietf drafts.

[Julian Field]

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You cannot safely scan messages with external bodies, which is why
MailScanner blocks them. You are asking for trouble if you allow them.

Pablo Allietti wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 02:15:19PM +0000, Julian Field wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>>
>>
>
>yes julian i can download from the webserver, but in my company all of
>us received this messages and need to deliver correctly for your
>mailboxes. is any way to do this?
>
>
>
>
>>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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