Zip files, file name checks

[Julian Field]

This behaviour was fixed in 4.30.

At 14:16 12/05/2004, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I am trying to set up a scenario where encrypted zip files are not checked
>for file types.
>
>My customers need to send exe and bat files, but I still try to
>set  limits for this kind of traffic. So I only want to allow these files
>in password protected zip files.
>
>Mailscanner seems to catch them some of the time.
>I created a few zip files for testing. All contained a  file called pr.bat.
>
>The strange thing is that when I send only one zip file in a mail it gets
>caught whether it's encrypted or not.
>
>If I send several such attachments (some encrypted some not) then the
>password protected file does get through.
>
>Is this a bug?
>
>I am running Debian Testing with this mailscanner version:
>ii  mailscanner    4.29.7-1       An email virus scanner and spam tagger
>
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