Confused about dangerous content scanning setup

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Thu May 17 11:00:55 IST 2007


On Thu, 17 May 2007, Andrew MacLachlan wrote:

> In MailScanner.conf:
>
> # Should archives which contain any password-protected files be allowed?
> # Leaving this set to "no" is a good way of protecting against all the
> # protected zip files used by viruses at the moment.
> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> Allow Password-Protected Archives = no
>
> I guess for your purposes you would want to create a rule for specific users:
>
> Allow Password-Protected Archives = %rules-dir%/zip.password
>
> zip.password:
> To:<tab>user at swatgear.com<tab>no
> FromOrTo:<tab>default<tab>yes

I think you need to swap YES and NO here as we are talking about ALLOWING 
something.

Hugo.

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