Daniel Shahaf wrote on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 13:44:03 +0300:
> Rejecting to the OP doesn't seem to be an option. (Rejecting to
> a constant address /is/ an option, but it'd be all rejections, not just
> 'bad attachment' rejections.)
>
> Seems the option we do have is to ask for some more filename extensions
> to be allowed.
>
>
> So, can we compile a list of extensions we'd like to allow on
> attachments?
>
Bootstrapping:
*.diff
*.patch
(extension-less)
Once we have a list I'll feed it back to infra to effect the changes.
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>
> > Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:50:50 +0000 (UTC)
> > From: "Gavin (JIRA)" <jira_at_apache.org>
> > To: danielsh_at_apache.org
> > Subject: [jira] [Commented] (INFRA-3724) attachments sent get dropped
> > without notification to either sender or receiving list
> > Message-ID: <1763775179.36025.1308901850607.JavaMail.tomcat_at_hel.zones.apache.org>
> >
> >
> > [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3724?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13054294#comment-13054294 ]
> >
> > Gavin commented on INFRA-3724:
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > I dont think at this stage we'll apply fixes globally. And moderators will not appreciate sending all rejected messages to them (you can not say afaict 'send rejected messages with attachments' , its all rejected messages get sent or they all get dropped.)
> >
> > so, I would say to cure this for Subversion is to tell us what you want to do there? I can removed some MIME types from the mimeremove file for the dev/user lists if it will help.
> > Note that .diff and .patch files are not categrized and dropping say application/octet-stream will not help in these cases (.dump it will)
> >
> > thoughts?
> >
> > > attachments sent get dropped without notification to either sender or receiving list
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Key: INFRA-3724
> > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3724
> > > Project: Infrastructure
> > > Issue Type: Improvement
> > > Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> > > Components: Mailing Lists
> > > Environment: subversion-dev list
> > > Reporter: Daniel Shahaf (äñ§€¥£¢)
> > > Assignee: Gavin
> > >
> > > When people send attachments to dev_at_svn it commonly happens that the attachments don't reach the list and neither the sender nor the list is notified (by the MTAs) of the dropped/missing attachment. Asking people to re-send with a *.txt (or *.zip) extension allows the attachment to get through.
> > > This issue requests that attachments either get through or either the sender or the list is notified of their having been stripped.
> >
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