Allow and block filenames on same domain

Corne Kotze Cornek at synaq.com
Wed Nov 29 12:17:07 GMT 2006


Hi all,

I have MailScanner setup on Linux, all is working 100%, but now the 
company wants to allow all managers and directors to receive almost 
anything, while the rest of the users are blocked.
In /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf - I have made some changes to 
allow for zip files etc for the managers and directors.
Then I copied the file to:
/etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.users.conf - Here I made all the changes 
to block all files needed to be blocked for the users.

In /etc/MailScanner/rules/filename.rules - I have a number of entries 
for the managers and directors looking like this:
To: email addres at domain.com /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf
And for the rest of the users it looks like this:
*@domain.com /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.users.conf

Now for some reason if an email is sent with a .ppt attachment to a 
director that is supposed to be allowed, that email is blocked by one of 
the custom rules, example:

#################################################################

Our e-mail content detector has just been triggered by a message you sent:
  To: email address at domain.com
  Subject:  test 123
  Date: Wed Nov 29 14:07:51 2006

One or more of the attachments (Test.pps) are on
the list of unacceptable attachments for this site and will not have
been delivered.

Consider renaming the files to avoid this constraint.

The virus detector said this about the message:
Report: Report: ScanSrv: Custom block (Test.pps)

##########################################################################

But this attachment is allowed in: /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf
And the directors email address is pointing to this file.

Any help please...

Thank you






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