Data file being flagged as executable

[ajos1 at onion.demon.co.uk]

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I, myself, would not change the magic file... as this will affect it detecting files that you want to detect as executable.

I do not know enough about MS... so I could be wrong... but would you not just put an "allow" entry into  /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf ?

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
Subj: Re: Data file being flagged as executable
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:53:40 +0200

On 9/23/06, Jonathan B. Bayer <jbayer at bayerfamily.net> wrote:
> Hello MailScanner,
>
> I run a mailing list for a software program.  The program creates files with the suffix:  ".3pi".  For some reason these files are being flagged as executable by MailScanner.
>
> How do I tell MailScanner that these are not executable files?

It's not MS that flags the file as executable, it's the file command
on your server. Read "man file" to learn how to edit your magic file.

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