Problem with MS blocking legit attachments

[Ken Goods]

Hi Jason...
Just had one of these this morning myself. It's the two dots (periods) in
the filename. There is a rule for it somewhere but I just had the person
re-request the file renamed with one dot (period). Easier than trying to
find the rule for me. Plus I like the idea that these are getting caught.
Keeps users from double clicking on a hi_there.txt.pif file thinking it's
just a safe text file...

HTH
Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Williams [mailto:jwilliams at COURTESYMORTGAGE.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 12:57 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [MAILSCANNER] Problem with MS blocking legit attachments
>
>
> Hello everyone.
>
> This morning, MS started to block legitimate emails attached with .doc
> files. So far, I have had 3 blocked today.
> They are all .doc files (all resumes actually) and im trying
> to figure out
> why they are being blocked.
>
> Looking through the logs as well as MailWatch, I see this in
> the headers field:
>
>
> MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension (Resume.kari.doc)
>
>
> I can't release it from quarantine, as it gets put right back into the
> quarantine directory.
>
> I've looked through my .conf file, but haven't been able to
> figure out what
> this is happening.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> System:
>
> FreeBSD 4.9
> MS 4.29.7
> Sendmail 8.12.11
>
> I appreciate it
>
> Jason
>
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