Allow password protected archives.

[Julian Field]

At 15:29 25/05/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm attempting to allow password protected archive files to be sent from
>   our domain but the rules don't seem to be working as I've got them
>set-up.  I've tried using *@bas.ac.uk as well as bas.ac.uk in the From:
>line of the rules file.
>
>The emails get put in quarantine with the MailScanner report of:-
>MailScanner: Message contained password-protected archive
>
>MailScanner.conf has the following in it.
>
>Allow Password-Protected Archives = /etc/MailScanner/rules/archive.rules
>
>the archive.rules file consists of :-
>
>#Allow mail from BAS with password protected archives.
>From:   bas.ac.uk       yes
># By default don't allow password protected archives.
>From:   default no
>
>Any help would be appreciated.

Change the "default" line to be
FromOrTo: default no
Not sure that will fix it (can't remember the "default default" at the
moment) but it's definitely worth a try.
Also check the envelope sender (X-MailScanner-Envelope-From:) address is
really bas.ac.uk and not somehost.bas.ac.uk.



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