Outlook Rich Text Format messages - how to let through?

Alex Neuman van der Hans alex at nkpanama.com
Tue Feb 7 21:28:06 GMT 2006


Beat them upside the head with a LART...

Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the 
Problem wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:07:56PM -0500, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>   
>> Jody Cleveland wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I'm running MailScanner ver. 4.50.15 on a redhat 4.0AS server that then
>>> routes to an exchange 2003 server. I recently upgraded to this version
>>> of MailScanner, and I'm noticing these reports from the quarantine:
>>>
>>> MailScanner: No Outlook Rich Text Format messages due to security hole,
>>> use HTML instead (msg-2611-3.txt)
>>>
>>> So, I did some research, and set Deliver Unparsable TNEF to yes.
>>>
>>> But, I'm still getting those notices. Is there another setting I'm
>>> missing?
>>>
>>> - jody
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Jody,
>>
>> What you're looking for is:
>> filetype.rules.conf:deny        Transport Neutral Encapsulation 
>> Format          Windows security 
>> vulnerability                               No Outlook Rich Text Format 
>> messages due to security hole, use HTML instead
>>
>> Denis
>>
>> -- 
>>   _
>>  °v°   Denis Beauchemin, analyste
>> /(_)\  Université de Sherbrooke, S.T.I.
>>  ^ ^   T: 819.821.8000x2252 F: 819.821.8045
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
>
> Just wondering how can one get people on their network to stop using 
> TNEF/winmail.dat?
>
>   

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Alex Neuman van der Hans
N&K Technology Consultants
Tel. +507 214-9002 - http://nkpanama.com/

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