Allow password protected archives.

[Derek Winkler]

You're much better off using your internal ip addresses as the From in the
rule file, this will protect you from spoofing.

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> Behalf Of Douglas Willis
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:30 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Allow password protected archives.
>
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Douglas Willis (ddw at nerc-bas.ac.uk)
> British Antarctic Survey
> High Cross, Madingley Road
> Cambridge, CB3 0ET, United Kingdom
> tel: +44 1223 221400, fax: +44 1223 362616
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