winmail.dat

[Jeff A. Earickson]

I have to second this idea.  I'm using 4.50.12 with the "deny winmail.dat"
line in filename.rules.conf and I've gotten some complaints about
rejected emails as a result.  Rejection is harsh if the winmail.dat
file can be snipped off without loosing the basic message.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Kevin Miller wrote:

> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:09:28 -0900
> From: Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller at ci.juneau.ak.us>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: winmail.dat
> 
> Is it possible to strip the RTF junk out of inbound RTF messages?
> (something like the strip HTML option)  I'm blocking them now via
> filetype but that's sorta draconian.  When HTML mail comes in, it often
> has a text component, and the HTML "attachment".  Does RTF do this too,
> or is the RTF MIME section the whole of the email?  I'm under the
> impression that the winmail.dat section is the mail and it isn't
> replicated in the text body area but don't really know that for sure.
> I'd like to let the message through but throw away the winmail.dat
> attachment if possible.
>
> I waded through MailScanner.conf but nothing jumped out at me...
>
> ...Kevin
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