filename vs. filetype in blocking executables

[Peter Bonivart]

Mailgate IHuff wrote:
> I don't believe that's the case - I'm using basically the default
> filename rules configuration.  Every line in the default is
> syntactically similar to the line I referred to.  Maybe it works both ways?

If there's a deny in either filename or filetype it wins so you have to
allow executables as filetype and deny all executables but sea-files as
filenames. That makes you slightly vulnerable to forging though.

Another alternative is to alter your magic file that identifies file
types and get rid of sea there.

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