RE: I'd rather not get the message

["Jeff Anderson" <janderso () pgsavings bc ca>]

Sorry Phil,

I've got a mail gateway that notifies users when their messages get blocked,
usually for obscene content, executable attachments, etc.  It was
misconfigured and started sending out notifications to senders of mail
coming in.  My goof.  Looks like it picked up on your attachment, scan-msgs,
because there was no file extension.  Anyway, there should be no more
notifications sent out.  Again, I apologize for the misconfiguration and
wasting your time,

I'll pick option 2, thanks

Jeff Anderson
Computer Services Manager
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-----Original Message-----
From: matt [mailto:mkettler () evi-inc com]
Sent: June 3, 2002 9:19 AM
To: Phil Wood; snort () pgsavings bc ca
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] I'd rather not get the message


If you are referring to the message "Re: [Snort-users] portscsan.log 
summary." I'd agree, that attachment is perfectly valid. There is no 
suspicious extension, and no virus code present, no reason other than 
accidental misconfiguration or blatant "wrong headedness" to block the 
attachment.

I personally suspect accidental misconfiguration (ie: a list of allowed and 
denied extensions that is buggy when there is no extension at all.) as I 
find it hard to believe any mail admin intentionally block text-formatted 
perl script attachments. There are a lot of wrong-headed sysadmins out 
there (ie myself) but I find that one more wrong-headed than I would belive.


At 09:28 PM 6/1/2002 -0600, Phil Wood wrote:
> I sent a perfectly valid message and attachment to the snort list in reply
> to a query for help.  Apparently, your software will not let this type of
> mail in.  So, it would seem to me you have two options:
>
>   1. unsubscribe from the snort-users () lists sourceforge net mailing list.
>
>   2. Don't bother sending us helpful folks messages we can do nothing
about
>      and are completely, and utterley uninterested in.
>
> Thanks, but no thanks.
>
> --
> Phil Wood, cpw () lanl gov
>
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