Possible BUG with the Script FileType

[Julian Field]

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Good idea. I have added this to the distribution.
Thanks for the contribution!

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Mailing List wrote:

>Thanks Julian,
>
>I taught you were doing more magic than simply parsing the output, so I
>added
>allow   postscript      -       -
>before the
>deny    script  -       -
>
>and all I now fine
>
>Kind regards
>Guy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: April 14, 2005 04:43
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Possible BUG with the Script FileType
>
>Please feel free to edit filetype.rules.conf to say whatever you want.
>
>Mailing List wrote:
>
>
>
>>Tested against:
>>MailScaner 4.38.10 and MailScanner 4.40.11
>>
>>Sending an EPS file thru when the filetype check denies script files
>>blocks the file.
>>
>>My rough guess is that MailScanner parses the output of the file
>>
>>
>command
>
>
>>and finds the letters "script" and interprets it as such.
>>
>># file Friends\ Fr.eps Friends Fr.eps: DOS EPS Binary File Postscript
>>starts at byte 32 length 73761 TIFF starts at byte 73793 length 10437
>>
>>Can anyone reproduce this problem?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Guy
>>
>>
>>
>
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