office 2007 files being treated as archives

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 6 17:07:38 IST 2007


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Add a new line to filename.rules.conf (somewhere near the top) that says 
this:
allow   \.xml\.rel$   -   -
Make sure the 4 "words" are separated with tab characters and not 
spaces. This (along with its partner filetype.rules.conf) is the only 
place where tab characters must be used, as the regular expression 
matching the filename, and the reports (which are just "-" for an 
"allow" rule) could also contain spaces.

Jason Ede wrote:
> I've noticed a problem when sending office 2007 files...
>
> For an attached excel worksheet for example... .xlsx Mailscanner seems to be treating this as an archive and complaining about double extensions. We can get round this by saving the file as a office 97-2003 file, but surely there must be a better way of doing it?
>
> This happens on the latest stable release btw...
>
>
> MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension (sheet1.xml.rel)
> MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension (workbook.xml.rel)
> MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension (sheet1.xml.rel)
> MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension (workbook.xml.rel)
> MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension (drawing1.xml.rel)
> MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension (drawing1.xml.rel)
>
> Jason
>
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