[AuckLUG] e-mail prob

[Vincente Aggrippino]

Ronald,
    This is most likely not related to your software in any way.  So,
this probably isn't the right venue for the question.  I don't think
you have a virus either.

    It looks like either your ISP, or the ISP of the person you're
sending the email to, is blocking these emails automatically because
it looks like their infected with a virus.  However, a search for
"Gen018 Sanesecurity" returns pages that list viruses related to
phishing (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing).  There is a
type of phishing/spam email which has a minimal body of text, but has
an image of a text message inserted into the email for people to read.
 Perhaps your ISP is filtering it out based on this criteria.

    You should probably contact your ISP about the problem.

-- Vince



On 1/30/07, Ronald Johns <ronaldj at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi all,
>        I was trying to send an e-mail this morning with a jpg inserted ,
> something I have not had much cause to do in the past.When I tried to
> send it
> I got the following error message...
>
> An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded:This
> message contains a virus (Email.Img.Gen018.Sanesecurity.06122000).Please
> check the message and try again.
>
> So I did , with several different .jpgs' including one I uploaded off my
> camera always with the same result.
> Can anyone cast some light on this problem ?
> Anything without inclusions works fine.
>
> Fedora C5
> Thunderbird
> email sent via orcon to yahoo
>
> Thanx muchly
> Ron
>
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