Gerald Combs wrote:
>
> On Sun, 12 May 2002, Joerg Mayer wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:20:17PM -0500, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> > > Is there some reason that the ethereal lists are still all open? At
> > > least the ethereal-dev one?
> >
> > IMHO, the openness of the Ethereal mailing lists has been a very good
> > thing: It is used for support (ideally ethereal-users, but ethereal-dev
> > too), and it makes it easier for "outsiders" to submit patches or ask
> > question that may lead to patches.
> > Maybe some tuning of the current mailscanner to actually detect the Klez
> > virus would be sufficient. That way, most spam/virii is marked and you
> > can drop it via your procmailrc (or whatever you are using instead).
>
> Mail for the -users, -dev, and -doc lists gets piped through Anomy
> Sanitizer and SpamAssassin before passing it to Mailman.
> (Ethereal-announce and ethereal-cvs have other restrictions on them.)
> Sanitizer is configured to drop any attachment that appears to be
> executable, e.g. with ".exe" or ".scr" in its filename. It appears that
> Klez has revealed a bug in Sanitizer where attachments with spaces in
> their filenames are incorrectly parsed:
>
> http://mailtools.anomy.net/archives/anomy-bugs/2002-04/0007.shtml
>
> Even when it strips out an attachment, the message itself still goes
> through, which is not the desired behavior in most cases. I'll try to
> find a better solution.
Real simple solution - add something Anomy specific to the prohibit
patterns on the mailman list config. That will trigger a manditory
moderation for the item before sending to the list.
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