File Attachment Rules

[Julian Field]

Colin Jack wrote:
> I'm a newbie to MailScanner, so please be gentle ...
>
> I want to create a ruleset for Allow Filenames but am not sure of the
> syntax
>
> If I edit MailScanner.conf then I use
>
> Allow Filenames = /.pdf$ /.zip$ etc.
>   
They should \ and not /
> If however I change that to
>
> Allow Filenames = %ruledir%/filenames.rules
>   
%rules-dir% not %ruledir%
> then create a filenames.rules file do I just put
>
> /.pdf$
> /.zip$
> /.ico$
>
>
> in the rules file or do I have to put in other stuff?
>   
In the filename.rules file you need to put rules that would like

From: user1 at domain.com \.pdf$ \.zip$ \.ico$
To: *@domain2.com \.pdf$
FromOrTo: abuse at domain.com .

This would
1) Allow *.pdf *.zip *.ico in mail from the address user1 at domain.com
2) Allow *.pdf in mail to anyone at domain2.com
3) Allow everything ('.' matches any character and so will match every 
filename) in mail from or to abuse at domain.com.


> Thanks
>
> Colin
>
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