How to send out banned mesages

Gavin McCullagh gavin.mccullagh at gcd.ie
Mon Nov 29 23:10:25 CET 2010


On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote:

> On November 29, 2010, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Monday 29 November 2010 19:13:42 Gelpi Andrea wrote:
> > > 	a user wants to send a mail outside kolab (to an external domain) but
> > > the attachment is blocked by amavis as banned file. (.dll)
> > >
> > > Are there other ways to solve it?
> >
> > Do it like everyone else does it when faced with restrictions like these:
> > * Encapsulate the file inside an archive (for instance: *.zip)
> 
> That's not going to work.   Amavis will extract the zip, and reject the 
> message.

Passwording the zip file is how most virus writers work around this.  Then
they just put the password in the email body.

Gavin




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