[Mailman-Users] Way to block virii?

[Mike Noyes]

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 00:09, Frederick Noronha wrote:
> Is there any way to block virus using Mailman? I know it's possible to
> block e-mails that cross a certain size limit, but these days virii come
> in small sizes too... 
> Any way to just keep out *all* attachments? FN

Frederick,
This is what I do.

Privacy Options -> Spam-specific posting filters
Hold posts with header value matching a specified regexp.

    Content-Type: .*octet
    Content-Type: .*oda
    Content-Type: .*audio
    Content-Type: .*image
    Content-Type: .*alternative
    Content-Type: .*digest
    Content-Type: .*mixed
    Content-Type: .*rich
    Content-Type: .*html
    Content-Type: .*video

Rejection Message:
Please configure your email client [1] to send text/plain messages to
this list. Instead of attachments, you should include any diagnostic
information as in-line text in the main message body.

[1] http://www.expita.com/nomime.html

Details:
Only messages with a Content-type: of "text/plain" and
"multipart/signed" are automatically posted to the list. All other
content-types are held for administrative action.

If you have any questions about this policy, please send them to
<yourlist-admin at yourdomain>.


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