Email with chinese writing saying No Program Allowed

[Paul]

Ive changed to

allow	-	text/plain	-	-


and now the message is being blocked again?

Do I need to do anything else to get the mime check working?

Paul


Randal, Phil wrote:
> Your example will allow everything, not quite what you had in mind.
>
> try
>
> allow	-	text/plain	-	-
>
> instead 
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Paul
> Sent: 26 August 2009 14:51
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Email with chinese writing saying No Program Allowed
>
>
>   
>>> I have someone sending me an email with chinese writing in it.
>>>
>>> The problem is mailscanner blocks it as it thinks its a program - No 
>>> programs allowed (msg-10911-621.txt)
>>>
>>> I ran the file command on the quarantined file and it does indeed 
>>> think its an program
>>>
>>> [root at venice n7OEIC6o017365]# file msg-10911-621.txt
>>> msg-10911-621.txt: COM executable for DOS
>>>
>>> But it just contains chinese characters.
>>>
>>> This seems to be happening on quite a few emails with chinese writing
>>>       
>
>   
>>> in them - has anyone seen this before? or got a solution to stop them
>>>       
>
>   
>>> being blocked?
>>>
>>> Kind Regards
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> Not only chinese, but basically any language containing non-ascii 
>> characters can fall afoul of these "opportunistic" magic codes. Either
>>     
>
>   
>> switch to using file -i, or edit/recompile your file commands magic 
>> file... For more details, I suggest you do some mailing list 
>> searches;-).
>>
>> Cheers
>>   
>>     
> Hi Glenn
>
> Thanks for your response, I did some searches and saw mention of adding
> a fifth field in filetype.rules.conf
>
> The output of "file -i" on the message in question is
>
> [root at venice n7OEIC6o017365]# file -i msg-10911-621.txt
> msg-10911-621.txt: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> So I added
>
> allow   -   -   -   text/plain  
>
> to filetype.rules.conf and it seems to have solved my problem.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>