Maximum Archive Depth documentation (don't set it to -1)

[Julian Field]

Added for the next release. Thanks for that.

At 01:50 06/03/2004, you wrote:
>I followed the "conversation" between Julian and Richard Lynch regarding
>not allowing password protected zips, but also not checking zips with
>the filename rules (the setup I'm aiming for).  It was mentioned that
>setting the Maximum Archive Depth to 0 or -1 would disable the filename
>checks, but still block password protected zips.   Ummm, don't set it to
>-1.  That caused all mail to be rejected as dangerous content (and set
>off a nasty loop because of the admin notification emails also getting
>rejected).  0 seems to work as designed.
>
>Perhaps the comments in MailScanner.conf could be updated to reflect
>this configuration option so that people know what to do.
># The maximum depth to which zip archives will be unpacked, to allow for
># checking filenames and filetypes within zip archives.
># To disable this feature set this to 0.
>Maximum Archive Depth = 0
>
>Daniel

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