[SOLVED] Retreiving attachments
Golden, James
jgolden at ci.grand-rapids.mi.us
Fri Aug 11 21:25:05 IST 2006
It wasn't my decision. I work on contract, and it was the employers
decision.
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 09:11 +0100, Julian Field wrote:
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> If you like MailScanner that much, why are you going to deploy those
> Barracudas?
> A commercial setup of MailScanner (such as DefenderMX from
> www.fsl.com) will outperform Barracudas and is considerably cheaper.
> There is a detailed feature and price comparison on www.fsl.com.
>
> On 9 Aug 2006, at 03:56, Golden, James wrote:
>
> > Sorry for being so stupid. After looking through it again, I see
> > what you were doing. 4 hours sleep a night catches up with you
> > after awhile.
> >
> > Thanks for all the help.
> >
> > We will be implementing the Barracuda's appliances here in the next
> > 5 weeks or so, that is why I am trying to "skate" by with this
> > setup for now. I figure what I am learning here will still help
> > out when we move to those appliances.
> >
> > Although I have to say with the exception of the file attachment
> > thing, since I upgraded and setup everything correctly (I think)
> > everyone has been noticing the difference here! In fact the guy
> > who handles the antivirus wasn't too happy with me, because now
> > more viruses are being caught as spam first. Our virus numbers in
> > email went from 200 - 300 a day to 1 - 10!
> >
> > Thanks all (Julian?!) for this fantastic software combination!. It
> > ROCKS!
> >
> > Thanks all who have helped with replies (especially Stephen), and
> > have put up with me!
> >
> > James Golden
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info on behalf of
> > Stephen Swaney
> > Sent: Tue, 8/8/2006 10:55am
> > To: 'MailScanner discussion'
> > Subject: RE: Retreiving attachments
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> >> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Rob Morin
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:35 AM
> >> To: MailScanner discussion
> >> Subject: Re: Retreiving attachments
> >>
> >> 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>
> >
> > Open Source: MailWatch for MailScanner mailwatch.sourceforge.net
> > Commercial (based on MailScanner and MailWatch) DefenderMX www.fsl.com
> >
> > Please contact me off list for more information about either.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Stephen Swaney
> > Fort Systems Ltd.
> > stephen.swaney at fsl.com
> > www.fsl.com
> >
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