Allow File Extension/E-Mail Address

[Julian Field]

At 01:37 04/08/2003, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I just installed Mailscanner yesterday.  In my
>/usr/mailscanner/etc/filenamerules.conf file I need for it to allow the
>two extensions:
>
>.map
>.atr
>
>I have added the two lines towards the top of the file:
>
>allow   \.map$                  -       -
>allow   \.atr$                  -       -
>
>However, when I kill all the PID.s for Mailscanner and run
>/usr/mailscanner/bin/check_mailscanner to restart, I.m still getting it
>filtered (see bellow).   Any help you can give would be appreciated!
>
>Jul 31 00:16:33 srv01 MailScanner[7674]: Filetype Checks: No executables
>(FritoLay.atr)
>
>Jul 31 00:16:33 srv01 MailScanner[7674]: Filetype Checks: No executables
>(FritoLay.atr)
>
>Jul 31 00:16:33 srv01 MailScanner[7674]: Saved infected "FritoLay.atr" to
>/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20030731/19i5nf-0001zl-FE
>
>Jul 31 00:16:33 srv01 MailScanner[7674]: Saved infected "FritoLay.atr" to
>/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20030731/19i5nf-0001zl-FE

Take a look in filetype.rules.conf as you are currently banning all
executables, regardless of their name.

>Also, is there a way to allow E-Mail's from a certain address not to be
>scanned?

Read up on rulesets in /etc/MailScanner/rules.
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