Confusion with Allow Filenames

[Julian Field]

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Max Kipness wrote:
>> On 12 May 2006, at 12:10, Max Kipness wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I've been trying to find the answers from archived posts, but I'm
>>> still
>>> not sure if the following should work or not. I definitely doesn't
>>> based
>>> on emails with .bmp files attached sent from other mail servers
>>>       
> (that
>   
>>> don't block .bmp on  outbound mail).
>>>
>>> In mailscanner.conf:
>>> Allow Filenames = /etc/MailScanner/rules/allow.filename.conf
>>> Allow Filetypes = /etc/MailScanner/rules/allow.filename.conf
>>>
>>> In /etc/MailScanner/rules/allow.filename.conf:
>>> FromOrTo:       myemailaddress at domain.com        \.bmp
>>> FromOrTo:       default
>>>
>>> There are no errors being produced in the maillog, but the rule is
>>> being
>>> ignored completely.
>>>
>>> I saw another reference to creating the allow.filename.conf back to
>>> individual filename.rule.conf files per domain, but I'd rather not
>>> do it
>>> that way unless necessary.
>>>
>>> Can the above work? Or what am I doing wrong?
>>>       
>> A few months ago I created an alternative way of doing all this which
>> you may find much easier to use when creating simple sets of
>> restrictions for different groups of users. One of the few things you
>> cannot do with this new method is to have rules containing any tabs
>> or spaces. But that's not a problem most of the time.
>>
>> First of all these configuration options are considered. If nothing
>> matched, then the filename.rules.conf file is used as it always has
>> been.
>>
>> There is course a similar set of options for filetypes as well as
>> filenames.
>>
>> Can someone write some documentation for the wiki pointing out this
>> alternative method please?
>>
>>     
>
> I've read the inline docs, and I'm not clear on how you use a ruleset to
> accomplish what I explained above. Does the ruleset have to then point
> to different filename.rules.conf files for each user/domain? Or is there
> some other way of doing it?
>
> Thanks,
> Max
>   
Set
    Allow Filenames = %rules-dir%/allow.filenames.rules
In /etc/MailScanner/allow.filenames.rules
    From: yourmail at address.com \.bmp$
That's it!
Leave your filename.rules.conf file alone.

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