Allow and block filenames on same domain

[Corne Kotze]

Hi,

Maybe my question was bit vague.
I should have said it like this:
I have just under 500 email accounts on my system(mail server), all on 
one domain, and all incoming emails are being scanned by MailScanner.
My Question:
How can I allow certain file attachments in emails sent to 40 of the 
email accounts on the domain through, and then still block those 
attachments for all the other email accounts on that same domain?

Example:
pete at work.com is a director
joe at work.com is a clerk

Now a "movie.avi" is sent to both, pete at work.com should receive the file
BUT
That file must be blocked for joe at work.com

Thanks


 
Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 29/11/06, Corne Kotze <Cornek at synaq.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
> Your ruleset seems to be rather wrong. Take a look at the EXAMPLES in
> the rules directory, and also look at the wiki...
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=&idx=documentation:configuration:rulesets 
>
> and more specifically
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:rulesets:overloading 
>
>

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Regards,

Corne Kotze
Managed Services Support Engineer
SYNAQ (Pty) Ltd
Tel: 011 245 5888
Fax: 011 783 9275
Web: http://www.synaq.com