AW: Allowing xls files

Ehle, Roland roland at inbox4u.de
Thu Sep 25 21:33:45 IST 2008


Slightly OT, but you are right. It depends on the person. For some people this naming convention is not strange, but normal :-)

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] Im Auftrag von Jerry
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. September 2008 22:26
> An: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Betreff: Re: Allowing xls files
> 
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:01:55 +0200
> "Ehle, Roland" <roland at inbox4u.de> wrote:
> 
> > Excel files are allowed by default. The only reason I can imagine,
> why
> > an excel file could be blocked by MailScanner is the filename.
> > Users tend to name their files in strange ways like
> > invoice.2008.08.23.xls which will be blocked by MailScanner due the
> > rule, which blocks filenames with double file extensions (Hint: look
> > for Deny all other double file extensions in your
> filename.rules.conf)
> 
> I don't think that naming convention is so strange. The only thing
> different is that I would have named the file: invoice-2008.08.23.xls
> instead. Unfortunately, a colon ':' is not an acceptable character for
> a file name under Windows.
> 
> --
> Jerry
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> 
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