Zip files checking

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Apr 7 14:47:51 IST 2004


Please can you double check this and your mail setup to ensure mail is
taking the route you think it is. MailScanner neither knows nor cares
whether a message is forwarded unless you are using rulesets on the
relevant configuration options.

At 20:49 06/04/2004, you wrote:
>I'm sending this e-mail again because my configuration on the list was
>incorrect, and I don't know if it already was sended or because of this
>"misconfiguration" the email didn't gone at the first time.. (sorry)
>
>I found a strange problem in MailScanner. I just updated my MailScanner to
>version 4.29-7, and now I was testing the zip file checking.
>
>I send an e-mail with an .exe file inside an .zip file, and mailscanner
>blocked it. Great! It worked!
>
>And then I forwarded this .zip file, and this time the .zip file passet
>through mailscanner.
>
>Then I made several other tests, and found out that every .zip file in
>e-mails are checked and blocked, but if the e-mail is forwarded, the .zip
>file always passes through.
>
>Any ideas to correct this problem?
>
>Roger Jochem
>SBS - SC
>Brazil

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