scan zip files

[Julian Field]

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At 12:12 13/09/2004, you wrote:
>Julian,
>    Ummm...  The default setting for Maximum Archive Depth is 2, not
>3.  Time for another change in the default configuration?

No, 2 should do okay. Has anyone any thoughts whether 3 would be better? I
might change it to 3 unless anyone objects.
The extra processing overhead will be minimal.

>On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Julian Field wrote:
>>Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:54:40 +0100
>>From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>>Subject: Re: scan zip files
>>
>>At 11:06 13/09/2004, you wrote:
>>>The virus scanner indeed scans zip files for virii. But what about a
>>>situation where I block some unwanted filetypes (.mp3, .mpg etc.). How do I
>>>configure MailScanner to scan zip files for these unwanted filetypes?
>>
>>As long as you set
>>Maximum Archive Depth = 3
>>then it will check archives for those unwanted filetypes.

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