CDR: Qualcomm bouncing MIME messages

William H. Geiger III whgiii at openpgp.net
Wed Sep 20 17:16:30 PDT 2000


In <200009200622.XAA18584 at enigma.qualcomm.com>, on 09/20/00 
   at 12:22 AM, qcpm <Postmaster at qualcomm.com> said:

>Greetings,

>Your recent email message to QUALCOMM has not been delivered due to the 
>attachment it included. QUALCOMM does not allow email with certain types
>of  attachments due to the possible presence of a computer virus in these
>files. Please resend your message without any attachments or compress
>your  attachment before sending it.

>We apologize for any inconvenience. 

>The QUALCOMM Postmasters

It seems that Qualcomm is bouncing all multipart mime messages. I have bounces of PGP/MIME messages, multipart/alternative messages (text & html), & a poorly formatted multipart/mixed that only had one part which was the text of the message.

This seems to be a rather anal approach to filtering out potential virus. Considering that Qualcomm is a member of the IMC (Internet Mail Consortium) it would be funny if not so sad.

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