Log permitted filenames

Steve Freegard steve.freegard at LBSLTD.CO.UK
Thu Dec 4 12:49:23 GMT 2003


Nope ... It shouldn't make any difference to MailWatch as I don't scrape the
maillog for anything MailScanner related - I get everything I need from the
database.

Cheers,
Steve.

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
Sent: 04 December 2003 11:44
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Log permitted filenames


At 11:22 04/12/2003, you wrote:
>Don't know if this already exists or not but I'm looking to get a bit
>more out of the log permitted filenames option. Currently it generates
>Dec  2 06:55:16 $hostname MailScanner[11630]: Filename Checks: Windows/DOS
>Executable (patch.exe)
>What I think would be really usefull would be
>Dec  2 06:55:16 $hostname MailScanner[11630]: Filename Checks: Windows/DOS
>Executable (patch.exe) in $msgid
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>Uly

Steve F -- Will this change upset MailWatch at all? I don't want to break
anything...

To get the extra logging, apply this patch to SweepOther.pm :

--- SweepOther.pm.old   2003-12-04 11:42:28.000000000 +0000
+++ SweepOther.pm       2003-12-04 11:42:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@
            #print STDERR "\"$attach\" matched \"$regexp\" or \"$safename\"
did\n";
            if ($allowdeny =~ 'deny') {
              # It's a rejection rule, so log the error.
-            MailScanner::Log::InfoLog("Filename Checks: %s (%s)",
-                                      $logtext, $attach);
+            MailScanner::Log::InfoLog("Filename Checks: %s (%s) in %s",
+                                      $logtext, $attach, $id);
              $message->{namereports}{$safename} .= "$usertext
($safename)\n";
              $message->{nametypes}{$safename}   .= "f";
              $counter++;

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