Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <jgregw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I sent a question about glib earlier, and opened up my mail some time later

>and got this:

>From: mailmarshal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: yonaton@xxxxxxx
>Date: 17 June 2005 15:06
   
>Standard Bank's Mail Gateway has quarantined an e-mail message sent by you
>for 
>the following reason:

>This e-mail is encrypted and could be infected with a virus. As Anti-virus 
>software 
>does not have the capability to effectively scan encrypted mail, the
>message 
>has been automatically quarantined.

>The recipient has been notified of this and can request the message to be 
>released from quarantine if it is safe to do so.

>The details of the message are as follows:
>
>   Message: B42b32d270000.000000000001.0001.mml
>   From:    yonaton@xxxxxxx
>   To:      gerard.ceruti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Subject: [SLE] How do I set glib in PREFIX?
>
>  Anyone know what the heck this is? I sent it only to the list. I've
>checked 
>for rootkits and found nothing. I've only got dialup. Something's fishy in 
>Denmark methinks.

>Maybe mailmarshal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is used by SuSE to scan incoming mail.
>Sounds like it's saying that it will give SuSE the opportunity to decide
>whether to accept your encrypted message, even though it can't scan it.
>Did
you just (maybe inadvertently) start encrypting your email messages, either
>for the first time or via some different encrypting method?

>Greg Wallace

Or maybe there was something unusual in the content of that message.

Greg W