[arachne] Re: illegal attachments?

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Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

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Hello:

Today I tried to email to my son an attachment being a perfectly
harmless and very useful DOS batch file. The mailer daemon at my ISP bounced the email for reason that it contained an "illegal 
attachment".
I fooled the mailer daemon simply by sending the same message and the same "illegal attachment" after changing the attachment's file extension from ".bat" to ".plop". The message and its attachment were sent successfully to the destination email address after I had 
renamed the bat file to a plop file.
BTW. I have discovered also that my ISP's mailer daemon will also bounce emails having attachments with ".com" and ".exe" extensions.
In order to email those files I just change the extension names of the attachments to some that are not commonly associated with files having executable code. Then the attachments will sail right past the stupid mailer deamon with no problem. I wonder if a lot of other folks are experiencing nowadays with their respective ISP's the same kind of annoying problems caused by the stupid mailer daemons.
I used to have *.zip files rejected. I just named the *.piz to get around it. Stupid is the right word.
Sam Heywood Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --
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