Author: Odhiambo Washington Date: To: exim-users CC: ccurtis Subject: Re: [Exim] System message & transport filtering
* Christopher Curtis <ccurtis@???> [20011012 21:23]: writing on the subject 'Re: [Exim] System message & transport filtering' | On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
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| > In the environment where I work, 99.98% user M$ Outlock and have no
| > idea what the 'headers' mean. They just wouldn't see it. If it's in
| > the Unix world, then the executables are 'nothin' IMHO.
| >
| > There was a list member who saved these attachments in a folder with the
| > recipient's name and sent out a mail to the recipient to contact him so
| > as to be given his attachment. Maybe you want that. You will get that in the
| > achives of this list.
|
| What I want is something more like this - I want to scan all messages, but
| at that point, the only thing I can modify are the headers. So I insert a
| header that I want to key off later, to send them a new email during
| delivery. I don't want to put it in a seperate folder, but if the
| automatic email thing works without having to scan the entire message
| body, that's exactly what I am looking for.
Still sounds ambiguous to me. Messages are delievered in some order and I still
believe the message that triggers your filter (or whatever) will be delivered
before the one you generate as a consequence of it having an executable. Chances
are high that your user will read the warning _after_ having met his match in
the executable.
Think of it another way: The main purpose of all this is to avoid the risk of
infection. Just _reject_ the e-mails with the executables. That is what I do here
and I explained it to my users. I told them in plain language that if they want the
executables in their e-mails, I'll let them have them but will _not_ want to listen
to any crap that "I got a virus via e-mail, please check your server" or something
like that.
I suggest that if you want to meandor around the executable, you should simply use
your time on something else.
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