Re: Re: [Security] ZIP file attachments temporarily blocked on CalMail

From: Aron Roberts <aron_at_socrates.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 10:41:11 PST

Hi Tessa,

At 9:33 -0800 2004-03-03, Tessa Michaels wrote:
>I want to mention as well that the zip program will read tarfiles ..
>as I understand there would be no need to block those, this is
>another approach that I can use in the meantime. Please confirm.

   As far as I'm aware, only ZIP format archives are currently being
discarded on CalMail. Email attachments sent using other archive
file formats, including tar and StuffIt - to name just two of many -
are not being discarded.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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