Virus transmission via list - was Re: [plug] Here to find out more!

[Ben Jensz]

Just block common Windows executables/virus attachment file types.

PLUG server runs Postfix, so a simple regexp body_checks:

/^[     ]*name=.*\.exe/ REJECT

etc.

I don't think blocking attachments period is a good solution and/or 
limiting size of emails either.  Because someone could be 
posting/attaching a rather lengthy config and/or output of something 
that they want advice on etc. and that could be either as an attachment 
or as a copy + paste into the email that could go over 30K.


/ Ben

Bret Busby wrote:

>I still say that attachments should be banned.
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>Of the (about) 80 lists to which I subscribe, all but (perhaps) 2 
>strictly enforce a "No attachments" policy, simply deleting 
>attachments or rejecting any messages with attachments, and the only 
>viruses that I have received that were distributed by mailing lists, 
>were via those two  mailing lists. They were the PLUG list, and the 
>linux-aus list.
>
>There is no need for attachments to be distributed by a mailing list.
>
>Bret Busby
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