Double Extension Permission

[Jeff A. Earickson]

I have had the double extension rule turned off ever since you introduced
it.  People howl if I turn it on.  But I would like to have it on if I could.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> Most people like this rule. Do you know the original reason I wrote it?
> Purely to demonstrate what could be done in a filename rule, to show that it
> wasn't just a list of banned extensions like the commercial products can do,
> but that it was actually a powerful feature which could do a whole lot more.
>
> To my surprise, everyone went with it. I guess it is rather useful to most
> sites. But if you don't like it then change it. It's staying in the default
> rules for the reason I wrote it in the first place. That's why none of this
> stuff is hard-coded, you adapt MailScanner to your site, not the other way
> round (talk to a SAP user about that!).
>
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