Re: No programs allowed and the character é at the beginning of a mail

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

You need to look for information on the "magic file" or the "file  
utility" in this mailing list. This kind of false positive behaviour  
happens with some text files being confused as quicktime movies.

Perhaps someone else from the list remembers what to change when this  
happens?

On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Alexis Michon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am new to this mailing list, so if the question have been asked send
> me to the reference, we have a mailscanner installation that work fine
> from one year and half.
>
> We encountred a problem since two week : each time we send a mail with
> the message : "équipe .... ", mailscanner answer with :
>
> MailScanner: No programs allowed (msg-9484-14.txt)
>
> After several tests, the problem is caused by the "é" at the very
> beginning of the mail.
> We don't allow sending programs by mail but we don't want to block  
> these
> kind of messages. I have no idea of what to do. How can i proceed,  
> please ?
>
> Mailscanner version : 4.77
>
> Thanks you in advance.
> Alexis
>
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