ALLOW FILETYPES in MailScanner.conf

[Julian Field]

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Kevin Miller wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>>> What I'm doing is setting up a particular user to be able to send my
>>> users .mp3 files, so I have the following files set up:
>>>
>>> %etc-dir%/allow.filenames.rules
>>>   From:   joe.blow at somedomain.com  \.mp3$
>>>
>>> %etc-dir%/allow.filetypes.rules
>>>   From:   joe.blow at somedomain.com  MPEG
>>>
>>> Is that correct, or do I really need \.mp3$ in both the filename and
>>> filetype rule files?
>> No, you've got it absolutely correct.
> 
> Almost absolutely correct.  Instead of %etc-dir% I meant to say
> %etc-dir%/rules/ but even better is %rules-dir%.
> 
> Seems to be working a treat - nice feature Julian...

Thanks. I originally wrote it for automatic configuration generation 
systems, as it's simpler to control as it's just another ruleset. 
Tinkering with filename/filetype.rules.conf is a whole new chunk of 
code. But the advantage is you can put whitespace in the pattern-matches 
in filename/type.rules.conf. And you can intermingle allow and deny rules.

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