How do I deal with {blocked content}?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 29 18:34:13 IST 2004


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At 18:21 29/09/2004, you wrote:
>JD wrote:
>
>>I've recently been getting multiple {blocked content} messages that are
>>valid messages. Mailscanner reports a script in the html message or doesn't
>>report anything at all. What solutions are there to minimize {blocked
>>content} to legitimate email?
>>
>>-JD
>It depends on what content is being blocked...iframe tags, object tags,
>script tags...
>
>There are several different ways to go about it, you can allow the tag,
>you can disarm the tag, you can do either for specific addresses, etc.
>What do you want to do?

A common thing to do with scripts in mail messages is to "disarm" them.
Read the MailScanner.conf setting for "Allow Script Tags".

I have changed the default supplied MailScanner.conf file so it is set to
"disarm" HTML script tags.
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