[Wylug-help] Odd email rejection

[Nigel Metheringham]

On 25 Jul 2007, at 12:01, Anne Wilson wrote:

> I have a problem concerning a message from the Mandriva lists,  
> which puzzles
> me a good deal.
>
> I now have something that's really confusing me.  Googlemail  
> forwards my mail
> to my ISP address, and it's just received a rejection:
>
>    This message has been rejected because it has
>    a potentially executable attachment "Re: [newbie] test.eml"
>    This form of attachment has been used by
>    recent viruses or other malware.
>    If you meant to send this file then please
>    package it up as a zip file and resend it.
>
> It appears to refer to
>
> Content-Type: message/rfc822;
>  name="Re: [newbie] test.eml"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: inline;
>  filename="Re: [newbie] test.eml"
>
> which ends with
>
> NOTE: If, for any reason, you believe any of the malarky I just  
> spouted,
> please beat yourself in the head with a very large brick and ask Ed  
> to come
> and mow your lawn.
>
> I have definitely received that message, though it didn't have  
> 'test.eml' as
> the subject.
>
> And one from ET, which I haven't seen, asking
>
> so does the expert list still have me as a sub$criber?
>
> I have seen a reply to this on the Expert list.
>
> The subject line for that one, it seems, is
>
> [Expert] [Fwd: Re: [newbie] test]
>
> so where, I wonder, did 'test.eml' come from?  All the quotes in  
> this message
> are from the ISP's rejection file.
>
> Anne
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