[PLUG] MTA Rejecting .pdf Attachments

[Adrienne J Davis]

Rich:

What I usually do if I have to send a customer/user something like a DOS batch 
file or Bash shell script, both of which my employer filters out, is to 
rename the attachment to .txt or, if a binary, simply remove the extension 
altogther.  I'll then tell the recipient, save the file as type foo and all 
the right things happen.

Cheers
Adrienne


On Wednesday 12 April 2006 08:50, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    I've tried to send an email message with .pdf attachments to someone at
> an organization that runs only Microsoft. Apparently, whatever malware
> detector they've installed and configured sees that file extension as
> something dangersous, so the messages are not delivered to the intended
> recipient. I'm not the only one whose mail with innocuous attachments ends
> up in the bit bucket.
>
>    Is this common in the Microsoft world, or could they have mis-configured
> whatever they're using?
>
> Just curious,
>
> Rich

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