Allowing .bmp files
Alex Neuman van der Hans
alex at nkpanama.com
Tue Nov 28 20:10:57 GMT 2006
Just commenting out the deny line will work, although adding the allow
*before* the "deny double extensions" would allow you to receive
"filename.no.1.bmp", which would be blocked by the "double extensions
rule", for example.
Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> Hi there –
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> Several of our users get messages with .bmp files included as
> attachments. The current settings of our MailScanner/ClamAV configuration
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> does not allow these files to get through. The request has been made to
> allow these files. To allow this, my plan was to modify the
> filename.rules.conf
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> file by commenting out the following line:
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> deny \.bmp$ Windows bitmap…
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> After that, my next step would be adding the following line further down
> in the file:
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> allow \.bmp$ - -
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> After that, I would restart the mail server. Will this approach work, or
> is there a better way? Thanks.
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