Retreiving attachments

[Rob Morin]

On another note, has anyone come up with a way to retrieve quarantined 
attachments without the intervention of the sys admin? Meaning the end 
user can get them themselves?

I thought i heard a while back of some app to do this?

Have a good one!

Rob Morin
Dido InterNet Inc.
Montreal, Canada
Http://www.dido.ca
514-990-4444



Golden, James wrote:
> Thanks for the answer.  Sorry for the long delay in the thanks 
> departments.
>
> One more question here,
>
> Can I put more than one rules file in the Mailscanner.conf.  Currently 
> I am pointing to a ruleset already.
>
> Currently mine looks like this
>
> Filename Rules = %etc-dir%/filename.rules.conf
>
> so would it look like this?
>
> Filename Rules = %rules-dir%/filename.rules %etc-dir%/filename.rules.conf
>
> Or would I need to combine the .rules file into the .conf file
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> James
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 17:50 -0400, Stephen Swaney wrote:
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info <mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info> [mailto:mailscanner-
>> > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info <mailto:bounces at lists.mailscanner.info>] On Behalf Of Golden, James
>> > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 5:10 PM
>> > To: MailScanner discussion
>> > Subject: Re: Retreiving attachments
>> > 
>> > The attachments seem to be .doc or .xls or others and the client always
>> > seems to be Outlook.
>> > 
>> > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 16:38 -0400, Golden, James wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 	Hello,
>> > 
>> > 	I've have been wasting my whole day trying to figure out how to do
>> > this.  Can anyone could help besides telling me to install Mailwatch
>> > (because it's not an option right now).
>> > 
>> > 	I have messages that are being snagged by MailScanner because the
>> > attachment is too large.  When I go to the directory the attachment is in
>> > binary in the message.
>> > 
>> > 	I tried using a sendmail -t < message, but of course it gets snagged
>> > again by MS.  Is there an option I'm missing to store the attachments
>> > separately from the message, is there a way to send this on without it
>> > being scanned?  Is there a way to get the attachment out of the message?
>> > 
>> > 	I need help soon as this is becoming a large issue today (about 6
>> > end users) and my boss is hearing about it!
>> > 
>> > 	Thanks,
>> > 
>> > 	James
>>
>> You need to create a rule sets that exempt the localhost from attachment
>> filename and filetype checking. If you have a Red Hat, CentOS or SuSE
>> system, the following paths will be correct. They will vary on other systems
>> but the same principals will work.
>>
>> First create two files:
>>
>> /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.allowall.conf
>> /etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules.allowall.conf
>>
>> The contents of each file will be identical:
>>
>> allow	*.	-	-
>>
>> The spaces MUST be Tabs so the contents of both files is really:
>>
>> allow<Tab>*.<Tab>->Tab>-
>>
>> Then create the file /etc/MailScanner/rules/filename.rules. The contents of
>> this file should be:
>>
>> # Allow all filenames from localhost
>> From: 127.0.0.0  /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.allowall.conf  
>> # Default entry
>> FromOrTo:       default         /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf
>>
>> Then create the file /etc/MailScanner/rules/filetype.rules. The contents of
>> this file should be:
>>
>> # Allow all filetypes from localhost
>> From: 127.0.0.0  /etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules.allowall.conf
>> # Default entry
>> FromOrTo:       default         /etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules.conf
>>
>> Then edit /etc/MailScanner.conf to call the new rulesets. Change the setting
>> for Filename Rules to be:
>>
>> Filename Rules = %rules-dir%/filename.rules
>>
>> And change the setting for Filetype Rules to be:
>>
>> Filetype Rules = %rules-dir%/filetype.rules
>>
>> Then reload MailScanner. 
>>
>> You should now be able to release the files using the `sendmail -t <
>> message` command without MailScanner re-quarantining the files.
>>
>> Have a nice weekend.
>>
>> Steve	
>> Stephen Swaney
>> Fort Systems Ltd.
>> stephen.swaney at fsl.com <mailto:stephen.swaney at fsl.com>
>> www.fsl.com <http://www.fsl.com>
>>
>>
>>