Outlook/OWA 2003 - file types blocked

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

Julian

If you add them could you please comment them out, as we would have serious
problems if these were all blocked by default.

Michele

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> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: 25 January 2004 14:33
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Outlook/OWA 2003 - file types blocked
>
>
> Would people like me to add all of these to my supplied
> filename.rules.conf? I don't really agree with all of them. For example,
> running a .inf file just shows it to you, it doesn't "run" it.
>
> And why is a .crt dangerous?
>
> At 13:55 25/01/2004, you wrote:
> >The following is a full list of Level 1 file types blocked by Outlook
> >2003 and OWA 2003. You may wish to use this to supplement (or annotate)
> >the list Julian provides in the "filename.rules.conf" file.
> >
> >Level 1 file types blocked by Outlook 2003
> >
> >File extension File type
> >.ade Microsoft Access project extension
> >.adp Microsoft Access project
> >.app Microsoft FoxPro-generated application
> >.bas Microsoft Visual Basic(r) class module
> >.bat Batch file
> >.chm Compiled HTML Help file
> >.cmd Microsoft Windows NT(r) command script
> >.com Microsoft MS-DOS(r) program
> >.cpl Control Panel extension
> >.crt Security certificate
> >.csh Unix shell script
> >.exe Executable file or program
> >.fxp Microsoft FoxPro(r) file
> >.hlp Help file
> >.hta HTML program
> >.inf Setup information
> >.ins Internet naming service
> >.isp Internet communication settings
> >.js Jscript(r) file
> >.jse Jscript-encoded script file
> >.ksh Unix shell script
> >.lnk Shortcut
> >.mda Microsoft Access add-in program
> >.mdb Microsoft Access program
> >.mde Microsoft Access MDE database
> >.mdt Microsoft Access file
> >.mdw Microsoft Access file
> >.mdz Microsoft Access wizard program
> >.msc Microsoft Common Console document
> >.msi Windows Installer package
> >.msp Windows Installer patch
> >.mst Visual Test source files
> >.ops FoxPro file
> >.pcd Photo CD image or Microsoft Visual Test compiled script
> >.pif Shortcut to MS-DOS program
> >.prf Microsoft Outlook Profile Settings
> >.prg FoxPro program source file
> >.reg Registration entries
> >.scf Windows Explorer Command file
> >.scr Screen saver
> >.sct Windows(r) script component
> >.shb Shortcut into a document
> >.shs Shell scrap object
> >.url Internet shortcut
> >.vb VBScript file
> >.vbe VBScript-encoded script file
> >.vbs VBScript file
> >.wsc Windows script component
> >.wsf Windows script file
> >.wsh Windows script host settings file
> >.xsl XML file that can contain script
> >
> >The above list was taken from Microsoft web pages by one of our Exchange
> >specialists.
> >
> >Quentin
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