Confusion with Allow Filenames

[Max Kipness]

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> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 5:21 PM
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> Subject: Re: Confusion with Allow Filenames
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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.

Ok, just did some extensive testing and it worked great. Got to remember
no tabs... Thanks!

Max