Allowing password-protected archives

[Kai Schaetzl]

Hi everything,

long time no talk :-)

I find that I have a problem with

Allowing password-protected archives = no

It seems that the version I use doesn't do anything with them if "no" is 
set. Mailwatch shows "deliver, header, "X-Spam-Status:, No"" as actions, 
but what actually happens is that the mail doesn't reach the mailbox. And 
it doesn't get put in the quarantine. And no notify either. So, it just 
"vanishes".
This is version 4.54.6

I assume this behavior depends on:
Silent Viruses = HTML-IFrame All-Viruses
Still Deliver Silent Viruses = no

I think All-Viruses should *not* contain Zip-Password because there's no 
guarantee it's a virus. If you want it to be a silent virus then use:

Silent Viruses = HTML-IFrame All-Viruses Zip-Password

And if it's not in that list then the password-protected archive should be 
quarantined and the recipient notified, so he can release it if he wants.

I checked here http://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner.conf.index.html and 
it doesn't seem there was a change in any recent version, so I would like 
to propose this change. Unless there is some other way to cater for this.

Allowing password-protected archives = yes

is obviously not the solution since it then sends all protected archives 
right thru. And a ruleset is not very adaptive. I would have to add any 
sender or recipient and then they would still get all protected archives 
right thru no matter if expected or not.

Thanks,

Kai

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