blocked ietf drafts.

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Jan 29 14:42:50 GMT 2005


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What does the AttachmentWarning.txt in the messages say?

Pablo Allietti wrote:

>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:
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>>>On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 02:15:19PM +0000, Julian Field wrote:
>>>
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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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>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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>>>>>Pablo Allietti
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