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Subject: Re: How to avoid this
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk @ chinet . com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:32:31 -0500 (CDT)
To: Majordomo-Users <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: <BJEDIKAGEDBJANLOJILKAEJACOAA.hawthorne@cybervpm.com>

On 08/30/01, at 9:11am -0700, Nan Hawthorne <hawthorne@cybervpm.com> wrote:

>What is the winmail.dat stuff

Some evil proprietary Microsoft uuencoded binary attachment NOT in MIME. Tell
the subscriber to turn the feature off.

>and is there anything I can do on the listowner end to keep it from showing
>up?

That's what taboo_body is for, to catch nonsense like that.

	# taboo_body           [regexp_array] (undef) <resend>
	# If any line of the body matches one of these regexps, then the
	# message will be bounced for review.
taboo_body          <<  END
/X-Majordomo-Version:/i [This header added to outgoing mail to traps loops.]
/<html>/i
/content-transfer-encoding\:.*quoted-printable/i
/owner-[listname]-digest\@[domain]/i
/owner-[listname]\@[domain]/i
/Volume [nn] : Number/i [This prevents quotes of entire digests from posting.]
/winmail.dat/i [This should trap it.]
/out of the office/i [To trap common broken vacation responders.]
/out of office/i
END

	# taboo_headers        [regexp_array] (undef) <resend>
	# If any of the headers matches one of these regexps, then the
	# message will be bounced for review.
taboo_headers       <<  END
/.*su.*sc.*ibe/i
/X-Majordomo-Version:/i
/^to:.*owner-[listname]/i [Certain Mail clients confuse the Sender and list-
				posting addresses; it's annoying]
/^to:.*\,.*/i [To prevent posting to nonmembers and other mailing lists]
/^cc:/i
/content-transfer-encoding:.*quoted-printable/i [Various traps for attachments]
/content-type: .*multipart/i
/^subject: *$/i
/^subject:.*Volume [nn] : Number/i
/^subject:.*V[n] \#/i
/^subject:.*to:.*[listname].*/i [To trap messages with broken headers]
/^subject:.*reply.*/i [To protest that damnably annoying client that won't
				the Re: convention]
/^subject:.*adv:.*/i
/uuencode/i [To generically trap uuencoding]
/x-ms-attachment/i
/winmail.dat/i
END




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