On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:59:55AM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> Ugh, looks like SourceForge installed a lame text filter that attempts
> to do virus protection (incorrectly, brokenly)... So my email didn't get
> through.
Just in case you are curious, it's the "standard" exim mime filter, and it's
been there almost forever.
http://www.exim.org/system_filter.exim
To save on resources, however, it doesn't do real parsing, it only does
regex matching, which can obvioulsy be fooled.
That said, sf.net shouldn't be in the business of scanning mail and spend
the resources on installing a distributed virus scanning infrastructure.
It's just a quick and dirty check to cut off 99% of the crap.
Right now, it's either that, or you getting *all* the viruses send to
sf.net.
If we can get SA installed, however, it'll have an exclude list for lists
like this one obviously.
> save to /var/spool/exim/rejects/embeddedmimeattachement
> generated by message filter
> failed to lock mailbox
> /var/spool/exim/rejects/embeddedmimeattachement (lock file):
> retry timeout exceeded
Ah, yeah, another 2G came in, the file had to be rotated (more than 10G
blocked already, and counting)
Marc
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