office 2007 files being treated as archives

[Julian Field]

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Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> Alex Neuman van der Hans spake the following on 9/6/2007 9:04 PM:
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>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> 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.
>> If you look at the spec they are an archive. Multiple files in a 
>> container which I believe is a zip file.
>>
> And as such, susceptible to misinterpretation - I think I got one 
> saying the file was "too compressed to be a real archive", which to me 
> sounds like some part of MailScanner or clam or something (I'm still 
> trying to remember the specifics) thought it was like one of those 
> "42.zip" type problems.
That's not a MailScanner error message.

Jules

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