Virus report and german umlaut

[Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator]

O.K. Thanks, so it is a feature.

At first, I was surprised that the message was cleaned, as the reported
filename only showed .pdf .

	/Götz

Jules Field schrieb:
> This behaviour is by design. I never include the original filename in
> any reports unless I can be 100% sure that it is safe to do so. If you
> want to see the original filename, look at the message in the
> quarantine. You would be amazed by the security problems you open
> yourself up to by using user input in any of your software's output,
> without sanitising it first!
> 
> On 02/10/2009 07:53, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got an error while sending an attachement with a "double" filename
>> extension. This is correct as mailscanner is configured to check and
>> disinfect this.
>>
>> But, the filename showen in the report is somehow confusing as it is not
>> the real name of the file:
>>
>> Report: Achtung: MailScanner: Attempt to hide real filename extension
>> (Basiskurs Einf.pdf)
>>
>> The realname is
>>
>> Basiskurs Einführung IT 2009 - 2010.key.pdf
>>
>> So there is may be a problem with the german umlaut.
>>
>> Bug? Feature? or misconfiguration?
>>
>> mailscanner-4.78.17-1
>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
>> perl-5.8.8-27.el5
>>
>>
>> Thanks an best regards,
>>
>>     Götz
>>    
> 
> Jules
> 


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