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[Julian Field]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:37:39 -0500:
>
>   
>> You can, if you put it before the double extension rule. Depending on 
>> the clients' wishes, I either disable it altogether (the double 
>> extension rule) or I add allow rules at the top for trusted filetypes 
>> (my preferred choice). I think you can override it with another setting 
>> introduced a couple of versions ago.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the answer. 
> Some months ago Julian introduced simpler Allow Filenames = \.txt$ \.pdf$
> stuff which can either be used directly in MailScanner or with a ruleset. 
> That's what I did now for txt and pdf. I added them like "\.txt$ \.pdf$" 
> to the file and may add more. Can I also put them line after line in that 
> file?
>   
No, sorry, you can't.
> Additionally I also commented out this double extension rule.
>
> However, how am I supposed to release this stuff if necessary? If I 
> release it it's immediately caught again by MS. The whitelist works only 
> for spam.
>   
You can put a ruleset on anything. If it passes "Allow Filenames" then 
it skips the filename.rules.conf file. You can put a whitelist on any 
configuration options you like, the whitelist for spam is just a trivial 
example to get you started.

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