MailScanner 4.28-5 and zip files - an oddity

[Kevin Miller]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 2:02 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: MailScanner 4.28-5 and zip files - an oddity
>
>
>At 10:44 09/03/2004, you wrote:
>>I presumed the message would be delivered with the attachment
>removed? I
>>can understand no warning being sent back to the sender.
>>
>>Is this the default behaviour? Is MailScanner now just silently
>>discarding mails with encrypted zip files?
>
>As clearly documented in the conf file, the "All-Viruses" keyword in
>"Silent Viruses" now includes the "Zip-Password" keyword.
>Delivery is then
>controlled by the "Still Deliver Silent Viruses" setting. If you want
>password-protected zip files to be handled differently, add
>"Zip-Password"
>to the "Non Forging Viruses" list.
>
>I hoped this was all clear in the MailScanner.conf comments,
>but apparently
>not :-(

I think it's as clear as you can make it, it's just that there's getting to
be so many possible permutations that it's hard to keep track of everything
mentally as each option impacts or is impacted by other options.  Almost
begs for a flowchart.  Not that I'm asking for one from you - you're working
too hard already.  We'll muddle through...

...Kevin
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