Passworded zip files denied

[Dimitri Yioulos]

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Arrrgh.  Thanks, Chris, for your patience with a fool who didn't look closely 
enough.

Dimitri

On Tuesday October 11 2005 5:43 pm, Chris Stone wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 October 2005 03:37 pm, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> > Recently, I had occasion to receive an email with a  password-protected
> > zip file attached.  MailScanner wouldn't let that piece of mail through. 
> > I looked in filename.rules.conf and filetype.rules.conf, but couldn't see
> > any (obvious) rule which was casing this to happen.  Can anyone tell me
> > how to allow mail with password-protected zip files to pass unimpeded?
>
> In MailScanner.conf:
>
> # Should archives which contain any password-protected files be allowed?
> # Leaving this set to "no" is a good way of protecting against all the
> # protected zip files used by viruses at the moment.
> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> Allow Password-Protected Archives = yes
>
>
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