Re: Blocking E-Mail Attachment Types

["Eric C. Lukens" <eric.lukens () UNI EDU>]

We block some file types.  It is covered on our site here:
http://www.uni.edu/its/security/emailattachments.html.  The "dangerous"
attachment is stripped out and replaced with a notice that the
attachment was not delivered.  If the user really needs the file, we can
still get it to them.

-Eric Lukens

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: [SECURITY] Blocking E-Mail Attachment Types
From: Steve Lewis <sgl3 () LEHIGH EDU>
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Date: 7/1/09 2:59 PM
> Hi All,
>
> Forgive me if you've already seen this on another list...
>
> Does anyone here block specific e-mail file attachment types? I'm
> curious to see how common (or uncommon) this practice is.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Lewis
> Lehigh University LTS

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