No programs allowed (ETP.DAT)

[Alex Broens]

On 12/14/2007 2:24 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> MailScanner is blocking the BlackBerry Enterprise Activation file.  It shows
> in MailWatch as a "video/unknown" file type so I added this to the
> filetype.rules.conf and the file name to the filename.rules.conf but it is
> still getting blocked as if it is an executable of some kind.
> 
> The following e-mails were found to have: Bad Filename Detected
> 
>     Sender: network at etp1101.etp.na.blackberry.net
> IP Address: 172.16.11.11
>  Recipient: someuser at domain.com
>    Subject: RIM_bca28a80-e9c0-11d1-87fe-00600811c6a2
>  MessageID: lBDM3p5x002753
> Quarantine: /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20071213/lBDM3p5x002753
>     Report: MailScanner: No programs allowed (ETP.DAT)
> 
> Full headers are: ...........
> 
> 
> filetype.rules.conf
> ---------------------------
> allow   video/unknown   ETP.DAT                 BlackBerry Enterprise
> Activation file
> 
> filename.rules.conf
> ---------------------------
> allow   ^ETP.DAT$               BlackBerry Enterprise Activation
> file                                           BlackBerry Enterprise
> Activation file (ETP.DAT)
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

these files are a PITA coz file sees about 5 different types

I used

MailScanner.cong

Dangerous Content Scanning = %rules-dir%/content.scanning.rules

___
File: content.scanning.rules

From:		*.blackberry.net	no


No more problems since - all other methods failed at some point


Alex