Re: [Evolution] Is it just me?



On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 01:49 +0200, Tony Earnshaw wrote:

Blocking all attachments would be a very bad idea IMHO. Stripping those
infamous attachments would at least save bandwidth and protect anyone
reading this list with MS clients. Simply rejecting those mails would
actually keep the list clean but has another bad impact. [1]

That's policy as decided by management and ITS. One AV vendor at least,
Sophos, recommends banning all attachments

Ironically, banning all attachments would presumably include attached
gpg/pgp signatures, thereby defeating one of the few means of actually
verifying the authenticity of messages.

-Mark Gordon




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