winmail.dat

[Martin Hepworth]

>From what I've seen of the winmail.dat's I've had to release.. I'd say you'd
have to unpack the thing with tnef......but I agree blanket ban on
winmail.dat is harsh and I've to remove this check.



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Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jeff A. Earickson
> Sent: 26 January 2006 15:39
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: winmail.dat
> 
> 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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