Filename checks blocking docx files

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed May 16 16:38:37 IST 2007


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Should I add this rule to the default supplied filename.rules.conf file?

Paul Houselander wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just had a situation with someone sending an email with an Office 2007
> attachment.
>
> Its in docx format and was caught by the filename checks (Attempt to hide
> real filename)
>
> It seems that that docx format is a Zip container for packaging XML and
> other data files, within the docx file are files called document.xml.rel and
> settings.xml.rel amongst others - these are the files that caused the file
> to get blocked.
>
> Ive got a ruleset for Allow Filenames can I just add
>
> FromTo:	*	\.xml\.rel
>
> and that should be enough to allow them?
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Paul
>
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Jules

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