How do I block all attachments

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Feb 2 13:53:39 GMT 2010



On 02/02/2010 13:06, Christopher Fisk wrote:
>>   I would probably advise trying "Maximum Attachment Size =
>>   0" first, as
>>   the other setting's definition of an attachment is not
>>   quite as simple
>>   as I would like.
>>      
> Can that be a ruleset?
Well done, you just found a typo in the documentation. It can be a 
ruleset, despite not mentioning it. I have just fixed that in the docs 
for the next release.
>    Seems to me if this is handling processing for incoming and outgoing messages and this will block incoming attachments as well as outgoing.  (Plus block attachments between users internally).
>    
Not if you make it a ruleset.
> So that seems like the correct place to put the block, but you would want 2 entries in the ruleset:
>
> To: yourdomain.tld    -1
> Default        0
>    
To: yourdomain.tld    -1
FromOrTo: default 0

is the correct syntax.

Jules

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