MS not allowing ANY attachments

[Julian Field]

Stephen Swaney wrote:
>> -----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.
>   
Also, make sure it is called filename.rules.conf and not filename.rules. 
This is one of the rare places where the filename is relatively important.

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