[ILUG] Re: cohosh covert

Sean Rima sean at tcob1.net
Wed Apr 14 22:55:15 IST 2004


Colm Buckley writes:

>>  == kevin lyda
>>>  == Niall O Broin
> 
>>> X-ILUG-ATTACHMENT-STRIPPED
> 
> Hum.
> 
> I'm already doing something similar, any messages which have naughty 
> (ie: executable) attachments stripped by Sanitizer are stopped by 
> Mailman before they get to the list (I hope you will have noticed that 
> no defanged viruses are now making it to the list).  The only exception 
> is text/html, which is stripped by Mailman itself, not Sanitizer.  
> Unfortunately, Mailman doesn't seem to have an option to indicate its 
> stripping actions in the headers.  I *could* block or bounce any 
> messages with HTML parts, but that would lead to many legitimate 
> messages being blocked.
> 
>> i didn't notice my signatures were being stripped.  ok, set mut to no 
>> longer send out signed mail to ilug.
> 
> I don't block PGP signatures, unless you're using either some weird-ass 
> MIME type or an unusual name for the attachment.  Try again?
> 

Darn my client and also mutt both do the weird ass Mime type :)

Sean



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