The @gentoo.org MX server blocks .exe attachment without sending a warning message to the sender, I just tested this by testing a .exe attachment to my @gentoo.org address. Personally I'm against any form of filtering MTA_side, this should be done locally by devs with procmail/mutt/whatever - fu. I might *want* to get attachments like that and it's not a decision that the MTA should make about my mail. Anyway not having a warning about it it's even more dangerous so please fix this :) These are the headers of the message: From lcars@infis.units.it Tue May 3 13:56:45 2005 Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 13:56:45 +0200 From: Andrea Barisani <lcars@infis.units.it> To: lcars@gentoo.org Subject: exe file Message-ID: <20050503115645.GD3633@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD" Content-Disposition: inline X-GPG-Key: 0x864C9B9E X-GPG-Fingerprint: 0A76 074A 02CD E989 CE7F AC3F DA47 578E 864C 9B9E User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Status: RO Content-Length: 1431193 Lines: 19616 --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: application/x-msdos-program Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="torsetup-0.0.9.exe" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 TVpQAAIAAAAEAA8A//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASW5ub48m EABw2e//AAEAALoQAA4ftAnNIbgBTM0hkJBUaGlzIHByb2dyYW0gbXVzdCBiZSBydW4gdW5k ZXIgV2luMzINCiQ3AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ....
This was put in place by peitolm a while back. I don't object to having it, but I also don't object to finding a better way of doing the same thing.
Now that we have spamassassin and clamav on toucan would it be possible to remove this .exe block forever?
I would rather not reply on spamassassin myself. '*.exe' has nothing todo with gentoo so we don't need it.
Well we should rely on clamav for viruses in .exe, anyway spamassassin could be easily tweaked with a rule that tags .exe attachments as spam (same thing applies to procmail). The point here is leaving that as a user choice and not a sitewide policy. Btw we currently have 13 .exe files in distfiles ;) so I wouldn't say "it has nothing to do with gentoo"...and anyway I might want someone to send me an exe and have the freedom not to block it.
Yeah, consider the mono uses .exe/dll ;) I don't see a problem with taking that out. I think it was orginally added to keep .exe files from hitting the mailing lists. There might have been a virus that came out and that was our stop measure for it.
*.exe in mail attachments wins.. Just had to use that 'freedom' word. :)
Removed the filters. Please reopen if there are any issues.
