filename.rules.conf - .bmp

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:27:34PM -0800, Kevin Miller wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > My boss has just nattered at me because he tried to send along to a
> > third party a .bmp file sent to *him* by his attorney.
> > 
> > Brushing aside for the moment all the obvious questions like "why
> > would 
> > an attorney be sending out a .bmp file?", we're left with "if
> > MailScanner is intercepting this filetype on the way *out* of our
> > mail system, why isn't it intercepting it on the way *in*, too?"
> > 
> > Is that really direction sensitive?
> 
> I don't think it normally cares, but you can configure direction
> specific rule sets.  Maybe your predecessor got it backwards or
> whitelisted it for inbound?

Possibly, I guess.  I'm going to look around a little further... once I
get done blowing in 600 feet of fiber to replace the 300 feet of -5e
that's running across the neighbor's roof to our other building...

Cheers,
-- jra
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