Recursive archive attachment expansion and filetype/name checks

[Julian Field]

On 25 Apr 2006, at 01:29, Harris S wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I am migrating my organisation's mail filters to MailScanner from  
> an outdated Postfix/Amavisd/Spamassassin installation and stumbled  
> upon a problem.
>
> The install is on an OpenBSD 3.8 box.
>
> The system seems unable to detect executable files contained in  
> archives (gz at least), either by filetype or filename. No messages  
> on STDERR, STDOUT and/or syslog.

It should syslog. Don't expect anything on stderr or stdout.

>
> Is it capable of recursively unpacking an archive and applying the  
> filetype/name restrictions checks to files contained?
>

Most definitely.
Look for "filetype" in MailScanner.conf.

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