File extension issue

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Mon Nov 13 13:43:57 GMT 2006


On 13/11/06, Michael Choo <mikechoo at opensos.net> wrote:
>
> Ran into this issue, user is running Mac OS X which can use multiple periods
> in the filename.
> Don't suppose there is a work around besides disabling file checks?
>
> MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension (IMR WITH BW-8.xls.pdf)
>
Sure there is.
Either you could just disable that rule in filenames.rules.conf, or
you could use the "overloading" feature of the Filename setting to do
some intelligent exceptions (look at the wiki page
http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:rulesets:overloading)
... Or you could convince him/her to not do that:-):-).

> cheers
> -Mike

Bottoms up!
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