Allowing .bmp files

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

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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