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

[Rik Thomas <rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

using sed and some rather complex regular expressions, you can implicitly
deny any attachment that you want.  Earlier someone posted a more complex
ruleset that looks at several different kinds of extensions.

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Malcolm McLeary wrote:

> 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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