Email with chinese writing saying No Program Allowed

[Paul]

Hi Phil

Sorry just tested again and it worked! Only thing I can think is I didnt 
reload Mailscanner - really thought I did!

Thanks for your help again, saved me some trouble there!

Paul

Randal, Phil wrote:
> Tabs between each of the fields?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil 
>
>
> --
> Phil Randal | Networks Engineer
> Herefordshire Council | Deputy Chief Executive's Office | I.C.T.
> Services Division
> Thorn Office Centre, Rotherwas, Hereford, HR2 6JT
> Tel: 01432 260160
> email: prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk
>
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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 16:22
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Email with chinese writing saying No Program Allowed
>
> 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
>>
>> --
>> Phil Randal | Networks Engineer
>> Herefordshire Council | Deputy Chief Executive's Office | I.C.T.
>> Services Division
>> Thorn Office Centre, Rotherwas, Hereford, HR2 6JT
>> Tel: 01432 260160
>> email: prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk
>>
>> Any opinion expressed in this e-mail or any attached files are those 
>> of the individual and not necessarily those of Herefordshire Council.
>>
>> This e-mail and any attached files are confidential and intended 
>> solely for the use of the addressee. This communication may contain 
>> material protected by law from being passed on. If you are not the 
>> intended recipient and have received this e-mail in error, you are 
>> advised that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying 
>> of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this 
>> e-mail in error please contact the sender immediately and destroy all
>>     
> copies of it.
>   
>> -----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
>>
>>
>>