blocked ietf drafts.

Sat Jan 29 15:43:07 GMT 2005

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 02:26:13PM +0000, Julian Field wrote:

i think MailScanner block this messages for the name of the file with
.-..- etc. ietf only send txts in the bodies not external bodies. i
think i not explain very well. :)

> 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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