Allow password protected archives.

[Douglas Willis]

Julian Field wrote:
> 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.
>

Tried changing the default line to FromOrTo: but with no success.  Ive
also noticed that my rules file for HTML Forms is not being run
correctly now as well.

Is there a debug option I can turn on to see if the rule file is being
used correctly.

Versions of software:-

MailScanner 4.30.3-2
  - ( Just upgraded on Monday using the rpm install tar ball )
spamassassin 2.63-1
RedHat 9
mailwatch 0.4




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