office 2007 files being treated as archives

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Julian Field 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.
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This could work - but I've already had other problems with Office 2007 
files. I don't recall exactly what right now - I implemented something 
to get it out of the way and forgot about it, but I think it was 
similar. It would be a good thing if anybody else comes out and mentions 
any details regarding this so we can take proper action.

Anybody here know why these files are treated as archives? Any other 
light that could be shed on the subject might help to better deal with 
these files, since we're all going to be finding them more often as 
people start "upgrading" to Office 2007.
> 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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