Re: Mailscanner or amavisd-new

Pandu Poluan <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:36:13 +0700

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On Nov 29, 2011 8:25 PM, "Vinícius Ferrão" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> Agreed.
>
> Filtering Windows executables will only make the system admin to be
recognized as an asshole and windows-hater.
>
> On Nov 29, 2011, at 10:11 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> > On Mon, November 28, 2011 7:27 pm, MiÈ™u Moldovan wrote:
> > <SNIPPED>
> >> Also, a good idea is to block
> >> extensions such as exe, pif, bat (in zip files also) before scanning
> >> for viruses (if such a scan is really needed).
> >
> > I disagree. There are valid reasons to send "*.exe" and "*.bat" files
via
> > email. Braindead filters on extensions only cause problems.
> >

With my current setup, I already block .exe, .pif, .com, .lnk, .scr, and
their ilks.

But I do allow .zip and .rar, though.

Rgds,