Klarinet Archive - Posting 000844.txt from 2000/08

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] Viruses via Klarinet
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 08:18:07 -0400

This subject comes up once in a while, so ...

I strip anything other than text out of Klarinet messages before they're
re-sent. Since they're sent to a Linux box, they're always treated as text
files and would have a heck of a time modifying anything on that box (I use
qmail, a replacement for sendmail, which is significantly more secure than
sendmail). ezmlm, our mailing list management software, is configured to
strip out various and sundry attachments and "HTML-only" mail. That causes
people grief once in a while (if their mail agent is configured to send HTML
mail then the mailing list software will strip the entire message out) but
it does keep mischievious attachments like worms & virii from being
propagated.

Mark C.

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