MailScanner block zip attach file

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 10:26:24 IST 2005


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On 6/21/05, Meshbah Uddin Ahmed <meshbahuddin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use Postfix + MailScanner + ClamAV + SpamAssassin in
> Debian. All are works fine. I faced a problem, when i
> want to send mail with zip attach included .exe,
> mailscanner blocks it. But if i create that folder
> with tgz extension then it successfully send.
> 
> In my filenames.rules.conf file, both /.zip and
> /.t?gz
> are allowed.
> 
> Plaese advice me, what should i do to recover it.
> 
> Reagrds
> Meshbah
> 
Hm, shouldn't the tgz-ball have been stoped too? Anyway, if you read
the comments just above
Maximum Archive Depth = 
you'll see that you should perhaps set it to 0.

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-- Glenn
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