rules help

[Matt Kehler]

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Drews response basically means that your filenames.conf is duplicated,
with a one line modification for the exe's, is it not?
 
I was looking for an actual EXCEPTION, where I basically say " let
BobUser receive all files listed FILE1, and after that, use the rules as
per FILE2'.  And everyone else, just use FILE2
 
What Drews says to me is that you can't really do a true exception...its
more like  "copy FILE2 that everyone uses to FILE1, change one line for
exe's in FILE1, and then give BobUser FILE1.
 
So Bobuser would never actually process the file2 rules..   So its not
really an exception then.  Its just an entirely separate ruleset, that
happens to only have a one line difference...
 
Or am I missing the boat again?
 
Matt

>>> MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK 5/19/2005 12:36 PM >>>
Ugo Bellavance wrote:

> Matt Kehler wrote:
>
>> For some reason I just can't figure this out.  We have our default
>> filename blocking rules config, and want to allow ONE user to get
>> .exe's, which NOBODY else gets.   This part I can figure out.  But we
>> also want the default blocking rules to apply to that user as well.
>>
>> So my question is, can I have an 'exceptions' rule for that user,
which
>> only contains the one line allowing exe's, and then somehow also have
>> the default blocking rules ALSO get hit as a second rule?  OR, for
this
>> one user, do I basically have to have their own ENTIRE ruleset, which
>> will essentially will replicate our default ruleset, with the
exception
>> of allowing one filename?
>
>
> Yes, there is nothing like exceptions in MailScanner right now.

Yes there is!
Drew's response tells you how. It's what rulesets are for.

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