Re: [Evolution] Can Evolution send attachments that are not displayed in the sent-folder?

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni billy demon nl>]

tor, 2002-08-15 kl. 01:04 skrev Mertens Bram:

> I just received a warning of a mailing-list robot, that a message I sent
> might be infected with a virus. I'm using Evolution 1.0.8 on a RH7.3.

> The message did not (to my knowledge) contain ANY attachment (it wasn't
> signed either).

> Below is the warning I received followed by the full source of the
> message I sent as I found it in my sent folder

My smtp server, Exim 4.10 running on RH Linux, does the same too. It
checks the declared content of the base64 encoded message body:

("--XIAR77O3Hv4844ZPIuyUO
Content-Type: audio/x-midi;
        name=width.exe
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: <O5kSe542r58iN54>")

against a regex list of banned types, with or without spaces or funny
chars. in the name of the executable. It very rarely makes mistakes,
gives the admin of the sending smtp server a chance to do something
about the mail. It would never reject html, xml or normal base64 coded
messages.

The message received by Exim is saved to a "cesspit" in a special,
non-accessible directory on the server.

Judging from the message ids you quoted, the server rejecting your mail
is not Exim and its filter is not working as it should.


Best,

Tony


> -----Forwarded Message-----
>
> From: Daniel B. <daniel LionsDen yi org>
> To: Mertens Bram <bram-mertens linux be>
> Subject: Possible virus deleted
> Date: 14 Aug 2002 16:50:15 -0600
>
> To: everybuddy-admin lists spine cx
> Subject: Re: [Everybuddy] Re: msn status incorrect
> References:  <200208141501 g7EF1IG10689 spine cx> 
>       <3670000 1029347556 linux wgc org> <1029364403 32401 8 camel localhost localdomain>
> In-Reply-To: <1029364403 32401 8 camel localhost localdomain>


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