Sophos and Encrypted Attachments

[Julian Field]

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What version are you running?

Mike Kercher wrote:

>I've been getting complaints of encrypted attachments being rejected by
>SophosSAVI because they are encrypted.  I've added a ruleset to allow
>encrypted attachments from certain domains and added a "Sophos Allowed Error
>Messages" entry for "File was encrypted", but they are still rejected.
>
>Jul 18 09:37:55 avwall2 MailScanner[26790]: SophosSAVI::ERROR:: File was
>encrypted (530):: ./j6IEbXCt027886/Cing 615 @ McMullen.xls 
>Jul 18 20:29:11 avwall2 MailScanner[31191]: SophosSAVI::ERROR:: File was
>encrypted (530):: ./j6J1So5V000931/20050718155617H0004711.PDF 
>
>These attachments must be encrypted to comply with the Graham-Leach-Bliley
>Act here in the US.  I think my last resort is to not virus scan emails from
>specified email addresses, but I'd hate to have a forging virus come through
>using one of these whitelisted email addresses.  Did I miss something
>elsewhere in my config?
>
>Mike
>
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