Kmail 3?

[Marian Stepka]

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Howzit;

> I thought I remember seeing a place to limit the size of downloads (maybe 
it's 
> in the filters?), but I can't find it now.  However, you are correct--Linux 
> in general is much more virus/worm-proof than Windows.  There are some 
> viruses in the wild written to affect Linux, but generally Linux e-mail 
> clients are much less likely to be the mechanism by which a Linux box 
becomes 
> infected.  Even if your Linux box does get infected from an e-mail (that you 
> manually run), as long as you're not logged in as a privileged user, the 
> damage will be limited to you own files rather than OS files.
> 

I think that no filter will work perfectly. One thing is that spamers change 
techniques for sending spam. In the case of appended Win or DOS files which 
contain something bad is best solution from my point of view to set up filter 
for attachments. Even they're not able to infect whole system or infect linux 
box at all, they wasting bandwidth and also money for dial-up connections.

I know that not all of us can have own server on the Internet and manage MX 
exchange, but anyway. I found one interesting solution in LinuxJournal for 
setting up e-mail firewall and filtering down mails with strange attachments. 
It's not a simple solution and cannot be done on the client side, but it's 
working.

Any filtering on client side will bring a problems. Even file size is not 
sufficient criteria for filtering. It a lot of anti-spam pages out there, but 
in almost any case you need access to your e-mail agent on the server side to 
filter that crap out.

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