Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
DdH> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:11:54PM +0200, Tobias von Koch wrote:
DdH> | On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:30:06 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
DdH> |
DdH> | D> | Hmmm...would it be safe to assume that any attachment type of
DdH> | D> text/<whatever>| should be scanned while anything else should not?
DdH> | D>
DdH> | D> Some mailers have quite a bit of brain damage and will tag a plain
DdH> | D> text attachment as "application/octet-stream".
DdH> |
DdH> | But the MUA won't display them in this case (at least not sylpheed,
DdH> | Outlook?). Ignoring them would be ok in my opinion.
DdH>
DdH> Auto-displaying the spam isn't a consideration, for me. If I get the
DdH> junk, that's the problem. Whether or not you want to scan them is up
DdH> to you.
...except that if it autodisplays, then spammers can sneak a message through
that way, and if they can sneak a message through, we need to scan it. If it
can't be displayed, then we probably don't need to scan it, because it's
unlikely to contain a spam message.
C
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