Sophos and Encrypted Attachments

[Mike Kercher]

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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 1:35 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Sophos and Encrypted Attachments

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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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