Question - Filtering EXEs, but not in zip files?

Matt Kettler mkettler at EVI-INC.COM
Thu Dec 16 17:23:29 GMT 2004


At 11:33 AM 12/16/2004, Daniel Whelan wrote:
>It seems our Mailscanner implementation is filtering executables attached
>to messages (which is good), as well as executables within zip files
>attached to messages (which is bad). Is there any way we can direct
>Mailscanner to allow the zipped EXEs, but not the ones that are directly
>attached? Thanks!

Set in your MailScanner.conf:
         Maximum Archive Depth = 0

Note this does not impact virus scanning, just filename and filetype rule
checking...

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