Password protected file - PW protected XLS, PDF & MDB files blocked - FIXED

[Quentin Campbell]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list 
>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Rick Cooper
>Sent: 13 June 2005 19:10
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Password protected file - PW protected XLS, PDF & 
>MDB files blocked - why?
>
[snip]
>> The only other thing that I can think is that if it really is Sophos
>> (as the logs indicate), maybe you could look into the "Allowed Sophos
>> Error Messages =" setting to add this error - but I'm not sure how
>> this section all works, we don't use Sophos.
>>
>
>This is the correct place and the topic as well as the 
>solution is in last
>week's archive, but I can't recall exactly what goes into the "Allowed
>Sophos Error Messages". I *think* Julian added the information 
>to the latest
>MailScanner.conf section.
>
>Rick

Rick

Thanks. You were more or less correct!

Julian fixed MailScanner earlier this month so that sophossavi would
heed what is defined for "Allowed Sophos Error Messages =". 

I use sophos rather than sophossavi and already exploit the use of
"Allowed Sophos Error Messages =" option in MailScanner.conf because of
earlier problems experienced with Sophos errors when processing
attachments. 

However I did not initially recognise the password protected XLS file
problem as yet another Sophos processing "error" to be dealt with in
that way. Your response prompted me to rethink this.  

When I added "Password protected file" to the two Sophos error strings I
was already exempting, I find that password protected XLS, MDB, etc,
files are now being relayed unmolested. The option now looks like: 

Allowed Sophos Error Messages = "0x80040202", "corrupt", "Password
protected file"

Thanks again

Quentin

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