From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RVMY5-0004Q4-EG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:12:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A68521C0EC; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:12:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.167]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FCE21C0A9 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:11:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.138] (helo=smtp7.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVMXC-0005R1-R6 for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:11:38 +0100 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp7.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVMXC-0002Kv-Gc for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:11:38 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C69E2D54 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:11:42 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZNU0E9u-GeQ6 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:11:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8B611AAB for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:11:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from 62.132.204.73 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:11:41 +0100 Message-ID: <32d886e97ccbf5468453b7f18ff99f3c.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:11:41 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Mailscanner or amavisd-new From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: - X-Ziggo-spamscore: -1.4 X-Archives-Salt: 7370f8db-e369-4f5c-9d99-8fcb5182f090 X-Archives-Hash: 31c3d1a26d47ab1f69a7a1cf1134d095 On Mon, November 28, 2011 7:27 pm, Mi=C8=99u Moldovan wrote: > Also, a good idea is to block > extensions such as exe, pif, bat (in zip files also) before scanning > for viruses (if such a scan is really needed). I disagree. There are valid reasons to send "*.exe" and "*.bat" files via email. Braindead filters on extensions only cause problems. -- Joost