"Allow"

[Julian Field]

At 16:13 20/08/2002, you wrote:
>If I put
>allow    \.xls$    comments    comments
>in filename.rules.conf, will the mailscanner and the virus scanner still
>check for possible virus infection, or just leave it untouched because it
>is ALLOWed?

It will still check all the files for viruses, regardless of what you put
in filename.rules.conf.

The rules in this file affect the checking of the filename *only*, they do
not affect the checking of the contents of the files.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ