Message Blocked

[Anthony Peacock]

Fabio Silva wrote:
> Hi all, i had a mail that was blocked on mailscanner, the message has
> no executable file, just a attach with the name msg-29120-102.txt but
> the message is marked with "Bad Content" and when i open the message
> in mailwatch i have this line above in the report option
> 
> "Report:    MailScanner: No programs allowed (msg-29120-102.txt)"
> 
> In my filename.rules.conf has no deny to .txt just one allow.
> 
> Why?? Why this message is blocked?

Hi,

My MailScanner sometimes stops Russian language messages in this way. 
The text of the email message is passed to the file command which thinks 
that it has the characteristics of an executable.

This has been discussed in the past, I can't remember the exact details.

I have never bothered fixing this as all Russian language emails to us 
are junk mail anyway.


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Anthony Peacock
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
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