ANNOUNCE: Unstable 4.28.2 released

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Mar 3 10:19:21 GMT 2004


At 02:05 03/03/2004, you wrote:
>Julian Field wrote:
>
>>At 12:45 02/03/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>>Also, If I change the above to 0 will that disable filename/type
>>>checking inside the archives?
>>
>>
>>I think so, yes. If 0 doesn't disable it, then -1 certainly will.
>I tried setting Maximum Archive Depth = 0 (as well as -1) and the
>internal zip file checking was not disabled.  The results were that all
>files including simple text messages received the warning...

It should work now (4.28.3).


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>I understand that this is beta code --I just wanted to report it.
>Ideally, we would like to disallow password protected zip files as well
>as disable the filename/type checking of normal zip files.
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