Quarantining password-protected ZIPs?

[Julian Field]

Look in MailScanner.conf and search for "Zip-Password". That way you can 
stop them being treated as "Silent Viruses" and so they will be 
quarantined and so on for you.

On 02/12/2009 16:16, Antony Stone wrote:
> Hi.
>
> MailScanner has a nice feature to detect when an attachment contains a
> password-protected ZIP file, and you can specify whether such attachments are
> permitted or not.
>
> I would like to block such attachments by default, storing them in quarantine,
> and send a notification message to the recipient, or the postmaster, so that
> if the email is from a trusted source, it can be released and delivered.
>
> However, it appears that if a password-protected zip file is discovered, it is
> treated as though it's a virus, and therefore:
>
> a) the original email is thrown away and can't be delivered later
>
> b) no notification can be sent to the recipient or the postmaster unless they
> get these for real viruses too
>
> I hope I am I missing something about the configuration options:
>
>   - Is it possible to treat password-protected ZIPs like spam instead of like
> viruses?
>
>   - Is it possible to quarantine such attachments, without quarantining all
> viruses (or archiving all email)?
>
> I hope someone can help,
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>    

Jules

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