On Friday 05 September 2003 11:23 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 10:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 05 Sep 2003 2:22 pm, Angus Auld wrote: > > > This whole MS virus garbage may not affect our beloved 'nix in any > > > real way, but man it sure is getting our list in a tizzy. > > > > > > I hope the infection source is found and remedied as soon as > > > possible. > > > > The source is, of course, important. I would also like a few more > > answers about how it is getting through various checks. And above > > all I would like to know how to filter out to safety (before they get > > to the machine) all attachments ending in .pif, .exe, .bat and .com. > > I know, I know, if I didn't spend so much time reading here I could > > get fetchmail, postfix and the rest up and running :-( > > If you use SpamAssassin and turn mime defang on, it would probably do that > pretty much for you, most binary attachments come as mime IIRC. I don't do > the mime defang thing myself because the wife still receives some email in > html form and I at least want her to have the option of viewing it in html > format.
Please ignore this, I flaked out while reading your original message and answered poorly. See my other answer. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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