office 2007 files being treated as archives

[Dan Straka]

Jules,

How important is the second slash??
I've left it out the past 3 months and Office files are getting through ok.
(ie. allow   \.xml.rel$   -   -)

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Dan Straka
Systems Coordinator
Casper College
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>>> On 9/6/2007 at 10:07 AM, in message <46E025CA.9020508 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Julian
Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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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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