Re: [jclement@spots.ab.ca: Re: [seul-edu] Mail Filters]

[Bill Tihen -- TECHNOLOGY <bill@mail.tasis.ch>]

Hi Roger,

Clever idea I like that.  Is there anything for .xls
files?  Can I make them tab deliminated or better yet
HTML tables?

Bill

Quoting Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>:

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> 
> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:02:08 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Jeff Clement <jclement@spots.ab.ca>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Mail Filters
> 
> You could try something like have your filter then
take .doc files, run
> them through mswordview 
> to convert them to HTML files, and re-attach them. 
Then people would still
> get the content.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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> But I thought YOU did the backups... 
> 
> On Wed, 31 May 2000 sala@cbint.org wrote:
> 
> > Ok, i posted to the list a while ago some procmail
filters that disabled
> > the executable contento on email messages. I think
that the filters
> > could be modified a little to block .doc, .dot
(templates) and .xls
> > files. The url is 
> >
ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/procmail-security.html
(It
> > works for the thing it's done for, i sent myself the
iloveyou virus, and
> > it was stopped. Nice)
> > 
> > Bill Tihen -- TECHNOLOGY escribió:
> > > 
> > > We recently had a word virus end up in one of our
user's
> > > docs.  She had to save it and open it to get it. 
So I
> > > figured maybe there is a way to force people to
send
> > > only rtf files and dissallow .doc and excel file
(rtf
> > > and tab deliminated files should work).  Anybody
have
> > > any experience doing this in a school.
> > > 
> > > I don't want to buy virus checkers and have to
update 70
> > > computers nearly weekly.  I figure mail virus
filters
> > > are expensive.
> > > 
> > > Is there some thing simple I can do with
sendmail?  Has
> > > anybody had experience trying this?  Can someone
share
> > > the results of trying?  Faculty repsonse, costs,
etc.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Bill
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