RE: [FW1] Mime attachment stripped

["Lars Troen" <lars.troen@FW1-NOSPAMproxycom.no>]

Title: Mime attachment stripped

Geoff,

The mime attachment is probably stripped because it is of mime type "message/partial" which is a type that cvp cannot handle. When creating a cvp rule the policy editor asks the admin to insert automatic stripping of mime type "message/partial" because of this. Several mail servers attach attachments as message/partial and it will then be stripped by fw1. I believe this is one of the reasons Content Technoligies discontinued Mimesweeper for Firewall-1. The best solution would be to no use CVP and have the mail delivered to a relay host which provides the wanted checking. Trend can do this.

 

Lars

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com [mailto:owner-fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com]On Behalf Of Geoffrey Moon
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 01:20
To: 'fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com'
Subject: [FW1] Mime attachment stripped

FW-1 SP3 on NT with Trend CVP scanning incoming email:

I'm getting a large number of "Mime attachment stripped" emails lately, some from folks on this list that never used to cause a problem (including some from CryptoTech). In my email client (Outlook 2000) I see the infamous "This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service..." , and in the FW logs I see the attachment being stripped.

I tried the SP2 fix (set :smtp_encoded_content_field (true) in objects.c) but this didn't seem to have any effect.

Anyone else having this problem? Any solutions?

Geoff