Txt file considered as program?

[Fabio Silva]

I have this problem too with SLES and OpenSuse.

What could be done to fix it??

Regards.

Fabio

On Jan 4, 2008 1:24 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> on 1/4/2008 1:13 AM Budi Febrianto spake the following:
> > Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> >> Budi Febrianto wrote:
> >>> Dear all,
> >>>
> >>> I see many emails quarantine in the mailscanner server because it
> >>> have attachment that considered as program, but the attachment
> >>> actually txt attachment.
> >>>
> >>> MailScanner: No programs allowed (msg-27290-704.txt)
> >>>
> >>
> >> That is a filetype problem, not a filename...
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Ugo
> >>
> > Why txt file considered as program?
> > Is it CentOS problem?
> >
> >
> Technically it would be a RedHat problem, because CentOS doesn't change the
> magic file that RedHat ships. But many other distros would also hit some of
> these. Those magic definitions are very old, and from a time when e-mail was
> less in use.
> Does anybody have a link to a better magic file?
>
>
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Fabio S. Silva
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