Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 73878
Mailing list allows attachments through
Last modified: 2013-08-05 14:49:55 UTC
The mailing list seems to be letting attachments through. This is a severe problem both in regards to MS viruses, archiving, as well as bandwidth usage. A filter to stop messages with attachments is needed.
support, would you be able to apply the mime filter to the affected list? thanks louis
Thank you for contacting CollabNet Customer Support. We will initiate our research on this issue and get back to you with adequate information. Regards, Ramya Support Operations
Updating SWB
The mimeremove file is in place for that list, and contains the standard list of attachments to filter out. Which attachments are getting through? Is this a case where we need to enhance the mimeremove file, or are they attachments that are supposed to be filtered by the mimeremove file but somehow aren't? Please clarify. Regards, Ramya Support Operations
reassigning to lars
I'm shocked that any are allowed by default. The standard list of attachments to filter out must be *all* attachments, especially any and all binaries regardless of source. They can be distributed via the web or FTP if they are legitimate. My request for *all* the @sv.openoffice.org lists is that *no* attachments get through, please. Here's one example of attachments getting through, which is fortunately (except for the attachments) benevolent: http://sv.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=31
Lars, We had long debate about this and agreed a while ago to let things that some email clients (and users) use as well as .odf files. The ban list filters out everything else. We can apply the ban list to your list and that would effectively filter out spam attachments as well as obnoxiously large zip files and the like but allow the sending of .odf files and a few other. best louis
That's fine. I'm not asking that any other lists be changed. I'd, of course think it was a good idea, but the scope of my request for the @sv.openoffice.org lists -- please no attachments for those lists, thanks.
Thanks for the update. Discussing this with the Engineering Operations team for their inputs. Regards, Ramya Support Operations
Essentially this requires more time for analyzing, we would update you after getting adequate information. Regards, Ramya Support Operations
A solution has been put forth by engineers for resolving this issue . However we would like hold on to fixing this issue until the production upgrade of the site. Moving this issue to the issue to the resolved later . Marking this issue as a post-upgrade task .
Reopening to update the status. -Jeeva CollabNet Support
The new Discussion Services, replacement for mailing lists since CEE5.0, allows the list owners/admins to choose from 3 options for allowing/rejecting attachments - 'Allow all', 'Block denied MIME types' [list of denied mime types configurable] & 'Block all'. Marking this as Resolved/Fixed per CollabNet's policy as the feature is available in Discussion Services. -Jeeva CollabNet Support
I'm not seeing where to disable the attachments. http://sv.openoffice.org/servlets/MailingListEdit?list=users
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The issue is obsolete. At Apache the mailing list structure is completely different.