Blocking email with an embedded attachment

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Feb 22 18:04:08 GMT 2006


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Why can't you just use filename.rules.conf to do it?
If you want to throw away the whole message then use "deny+delete" and 
not just "deny". Feel free to contribute some more/better documentation 
for the top of this file :-)

lester lasad wrote:
> Is it possible, and if so how do I block an email with
> an embedded attachment?  My users continue to receive
> the same email (from different addresses/hosts)on a
> daily basis, the only constant I am seeing is an
> attachment called "38.jpg" in the header.  I have
> included some of the header below, the last portion
> shows the attachment name.  Please let me know if
> there is anyway to stop this.  I have reviewed the
> filename.rules.conf and filetype.rules.conf but this
> does not seem to provide what I am looking for. 
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Fedora Core 1 
> MailScanner 4.49.7
> SpamAssassin 3.00
>
> --snip--
> Content-Type: multipart/related;
> 		
> boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0051_01C631DB.DA3C46A0";
>
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_0051_01C631DB.DA3C46A0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> 		
> boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0052_01C631DB.DA3C46A0"
>
>
> ------=_NextPart_001_0052_01C631DB.DA3C46A0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> 		 charset="us-ascii"
>
>
>  in their respective time zones facing the wrath of
> Rowling's publishers, if not the publishers'
> attorneys.
> ------=_NextPart_001_0052_01C631DB.DA3C46A0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> Content-Type: text/html;
> 		 charset="us-ascii"
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
> Transitional//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html;
> charset=3Dus-ascii">
> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668"
> name=3DGENERATOR>
> <STYLE></STYLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
> <DIV align=3Dcenter><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A=20
> href=3D"http://qwomdk.purplguar.info/?23295343"><IMG
> alt=3D"" hspace=3D0 =
> src=3D"cid:005001c631a1$2ddafda0$6400a8c0 at VAIO"
> align=3Dbaseline=20
> border=3D0></A></FONT></DIV>
> <DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial
> color=3D#ffffff=20
> size=3D2>The most anticipated of the bunch arrives
> July 16 with the sixth book in the Harry Potter
> series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
> Prince."</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
>
> ------=_NextPart_001_0052_01C631DB.DA3C46A0--
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_0051_01C631DB.DA3C46A0
> Content-Type: image/jpeg;
> 		 name="38.jpg"
> Content-ID: <005001c631a1$2ddafda0$6400a8c0 at VAIO>
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________
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>   

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