Warning Is Attachment

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Oct 30 12:06:15 GMT 2002


At 23:27 29/10/2002, you wrote:
>No dice.  Also shouldn't Warning Is Attachment = no in MailScanner.conf
>work?

It is still added as a separate MIME entity with its disposition set to
"inline". Exactly what you see in the mail client depends a bit on how that
client handles inline entities.

If you look in the raw message, see if you get a "disposition = inline"
label at the start of the warning.


>Steve Evans
>SDSU Foundation
>(619) 594-0653
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 3:20 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Warning Is Attachment
>
>
>At 22:54 29/10/2002, you wrote:
> >First I had it had
> >
> >Warning Is Attachment = no
> >
> >I sent a file with an exe file (blocked on file list).  The warning is
> >an attachment.
> >
> >I changed it to
> >
> >Warning Is Attachment = /etc/MailScanner/rules/virus.attachment.conf
> >
> >That file contains
> >
> >From:   default no
> >
> >Still comes in as an attachment.  I did restart MailScanner after every
>
> >change.  Any idea what I'm missing?
>
>I haven't checked through the code, but try
>FromTo: default no
>and see if that fixes it. You really need to specify the default for
>both directions. If it still doesn't work, get back to me and I'll have
>a dig.
>--
>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

--
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



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