Confused about dangerous content scanning setup

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu May 17 17:22:38 IST 2007


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The only time you must use tabs in configuration files is in 
filename.rules.conf and filetype.rules.conf files. That's because it 
must allow regular expressions with spaces in. All other configuration 
files in MailScanner will work with arbitrary amounts of tabs and/or spaces.

Chris W. Parker wrote:
> Thanks everyone. It's working now.
>
> Apparently I was looking for the wrong option. :) 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Andrew
> MacLachlan
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:00 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Confused about dangerous content scanning setup
>
> 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
>
> -Andy
>
>   

Jules

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