MailScanner hates Microsoft office

[Julian Field]

On 19/11/2009 22:28, Johan Hendriks wrote:
>
> >For some reason a lot of our office files are being held hostage by 
> MailScanner by the filetype filter for various reasons which to me 
> dont make any sense.
>
> >These range from the file being identified as an executable to AVI movies.
>
> >When I do 'file -i' on it, it'll always show 'application/msword; 
> charset=binary'
>
> >
>
> >So far i've tried setting 'unpack microsoft documents' to no and 
> removed 'ole' from the 'Archives Are' setting, but that did not change 
> anything.
>
> >Am I overlooking anything ?
>
> >
>
> >-
>
> >Arjan
>
> I have the same issue now, in my case i needed to add –i to the file 
> command in the mailscanner.conf file.
> his solved it for me.
>
What's wrong with reading the docs at the top of filename.rules.conf, 
and discovering that all the "-i" stuff is already implemented for you. 
I do *not* support adding "-i" to the file command in MailScanner.conf.

Jules

-- 
Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
www.MailScanner.info
Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store

Need help customising MailScanner?
Contact me!
Need help fixing or optimising your systems?
Contact me!
Need help getting you started solving new requirements from your boss?
Contact me!

PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
Follow me at twitter.com/JulesFM and twitter.com/MailScanner


-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.