MS not allowing ANY attachments

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jose Guevarra
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 6:28 PM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: MS not allowing ANY attachments
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using MS 4.4.3
> 
> MS seems to be catching ALL attachments.  Every time I try to start MS I
> get errors like these
> 
> Jan 27 15:25:48 saibot MailScanner[7485]: Syntax error in first field in
> line 17 of ruleset /etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules
> Jan 27 15:25:48 saibot MailScanner[7485]: Syntax error in first field in
> line 18 of ruleset /etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules
> Jan 27 15:25:48 saibot MailScanner[7485]: Syntax error in first field in
> line 19 of ruleset /etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules
> Jan 27 15:25:48 saibot MailScanner[7485]: Syntax error in first field in
> line 20 of ruleset /etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules
> Jan 27 15:25:48 saibot MailScanner[7485]: Syntax error in first field in
> line 21 of ruleset /etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules
> 
> However, I haven't edited the rules and I even replaced them with rules
> from the original source code.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

Check that the files in the file are separated by TABs not spaces

I quote from the filename.rules.conf file:

#
# NOTE: Fields are separated by TAB characters --- Important!
#
# Syntax is allow/deny/deny+delete, then regular expression, then log text,
#           then user report text.

Hope this helps,

Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com