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Campus Listmasters: Guard Against Spreading Email Viruses

If you manage a mailing list on campus and have modified your list's configuration to allow email attachments, it's wise to take extra precautions against email worms.

By adding the following code to your .config file, you can cause all files with questionable extensions to bounce to you for approval before they reach the list:

# taboo_body [regexp_array] (undef)
# If any line of the body matches one of these regexps, then the
# message will be bounced for review.
taboo_body << END
/^[ ]*[file]*name=\".*\.[pP][iI][fF]\"/
/^[ ]*[file]*name=\".*\.[lL][nN][kK]\"/
/^[ ]*[file]*name=\".*\.[bB][aA][tT]\"/
/^[ ]*[file]*name=\".*\.[eE][xX][eE]\"/
/^[ ]*[file]*name=\".*\.[cC][oO][mM]\"/
END

Please check all bounced messages carefully before forwarding on to your list!

For more information about managing a mailing list on campus, see http://cc.uoregon.edu/mailinglists/manage.html


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