[cobalt-users] Re: procmail'ing for vbs attachments was Re: [cobalt-users] Babysitting

[Malcolm McLeary <mim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

on 9/5/00 12:59 AM, Rik Thomas at rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> What this does is any attachment with a vbs extension gets renamed to
> filename.vbs.txt so if the user doubleclicks on the attachment it will
> bring it up in their registered text editor.

Very nice solution ... some overhead, not too intrusive.

What if you wanted to be more restrictive?

I'm thinking about a policy similar to email relay ... only accept email
attachments of a certain types.  If a message arrived with a unacceptable
attachment type ... send it back.  Its probably a bit hard to reject it as
one would with email relay, but "return to sender" with an approriate note
to force a company policy might be appropriate.

Would this be hard to implement?

A GUI interface to add/remove permitted attachment types would be a nice
touch.

Cheers,  Malcolm

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