[techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:57:21AM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Kai MacTane thought:
> >help here: if you do have a lot of mail traffic, attachments are probably
> >a large part of that. Check first, though: do your users NEED attachments
> >for anything? If so, you'll need to make some arrangement for that.
> >Perhaps block only .EXE files and other "suspect" material?
> 
> .vbs, .com, .bat
> 
> Unfortunately, you probably can't get all your business partners to send 
> you .rtf instead of .doc. (But if you could, it would really cut down on 
> Word macro viruses!)

Check out procmail sanitiser which can do lots of stuff with email
attachments (for example, stripping attachments, saving them on a server
adn requiring users to go to the company vice-president to retrieve their
attachments (That'd cut down the email porn pretty quickly!))

http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html

Conor
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