MS Office 2007 File Problems

[Alex Neuman]

Because you have the "double file extension" rule set, and files inside the
compress office docx files have dotsomethingdotsomethinelsedotblah in them.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Andrew Bruce <abruce at hope-st.ath.cx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble with Office 2007 files not being allowed through
> MailScanner.
>
> I've got these (applicable) rules in my filename.rules.conf:
>
>
>
> # docx
> allow \.docx$        -  -
> allow \.xml[0-9]\.rel$     -  -
>
> # Allow repeated file extension, e.g. blah.zip.zip
> allow (\.[a-z0-9]{3})\1$   -  -
>
> # Deny all other double file extensions. This catches any hidden filenames.
> deny  \.[a-z][a-z0-9]{2,3}\s*\.[a-z0-9]{3}$  Found possible filename hiding
> Attempt to hide real filename extension
>
>
>
> Yet am still seeing results like this:
> Report: MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension
> (document.xml.rel)
> MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension (settings.xml.rel)
> Report: MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension
> (document.xml1.rel)
> MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension (settings.xml1.rel)
> Report: MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension
> (document.xml1.rel)
> Report: MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension
> (document.xml.rel)
> Report: MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension
> (settings.xml.rel)
> Report: MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension
> (settings.xml1.rel)
>
>
> I'm running MailScanner version 4.61.7 (yes, I will be upgrading this when
> I can afford the server downtime).
>
> Any idea why this would be?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
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