Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing binaries
My solution, suggested here, is working fairly well: make them beg for approval by setting a bunch of the right headers to be "suspicious": add
Content-type:.*multipart/alternative.* Content-type:.*multipart/mixed.* .*text/html.* .*text/enriched.* .*text/x-vcard.* Content-Disposition:.*attachment
to Privacy Options/Hold posts with header value...
I haven't upgraded from one of the betas to the official 1.1, but I was wondering if anyone had done any patches that allowed one to set whether or not to strip binaries from the list (including vcards and so on). This is fairly common on commercial lists.
I am now hosting a pretty large list of spinning fiends and, as the average spinner isn't especially technical, I'd rather NOT see, say, the latest virus going to the list.
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Quoting Dan Mick (Dan.Mick@West.Sun.COM):
My solution, suggested here, is working fairly well: make them beg for approval by setting a bunch of the right headers to be "suspicious": add
My solution is to run posts through procmail before mailman sees them. I've posted detailed instructions on this before, but I got the original idea from this mailing list before that.
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On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Paul Tomblin wrote:
Quoting Dan Mick (Dan.Mick@West.Sun.COM):
My solution, suggested here, is working fairly well: make them beg for approval by setting a bunch of the right headers to be "suspicious": add
My solution is to run posts through procmail before mailman sees them. I've posted detailed instructions on this before, but I got the original idea from this mailing list before that.
This is an interesting approach. Can you tell me when (in time) approximately these posts were? This is a readily implementable solution.
-- _Deirdre * http://www.linuxcabal.net * http://www.deirdre.net "Mars has been a tough target" -- Peter G. Neumann, Risks Digest Moderator "That's because the Martians keep shooting things down." -- Harlan Rosenthal <Harlan.Rosenthal@Dialogic.com>, retorting in Risks Digest 20.60
Quoting Deirdre Saoirse (deirdre@deirdre.net):
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Paul Tomblin wrote:
Quoting Dan Mick (Dan.Mick@West.Sun.COM):
My solution, suggested here, is working fairly well: make them beg for approval by setting a bunch of the right headers to be "suspicious": add
My solution is to run posts through procmail before mailman sees them. I've posted detailed instructions on this before, but I got the original idea from this mailing list before that.
This is an interesting approach. Can you tell me when (in time) approximately these posts were? This is a readily implementable solution.
One of my posts on the subject can be found at http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-November/002587.html
You might also want to contact Phillip Porch, who in a previous article http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-November/002586.html said he had a python script to strip attachments.
But the one that started me off is at: http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-February/000617.html
-- Paul Tomblin, not speaking for anybody. SETI@Home: Finally a *good* way to impress Jodie Foster http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Dan Mick wrote:
My solution, suggested here, is working fairly well: make them beg for approval by setting a bunch of the right headers to be "suspicious": add
On a list with a bunch of users with vcards and stuff, this would simply tax the mail list admins.
-- _Deirdre * http://www.linuxcabal.net * http://www.deirdre.net "Mars has been a tough target" -- Peter G. Neumann, Risks Digest Moderator "That's because the Martians keep shooting things down." -- Harlan Rosenthal <Harlan.Rosenthal@Dialogic.com>, retorting in Risks Digest 20.60
Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Dan Mick wrote:
My solution, suggested here, is working fairly well: make them beg for approval by setting a bunch of the right headers to be "suspicious": add
On a list with a bunch of users with vcards and stuff, this would simply tax the mail list admins.
I haven't found it so. Usually people are interested in getting their deathless prose out on the net immediately, so the delay in processing, with an explanation as to why the rejection happens, causes them to modify their behavior. Or go away, which is okay with me too.
I'd suggest trying it before you discard it out of hand. I have a 200-person list with some remarkably stupid users, and it's working OK for me.
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