Incorectly blocking files.

[Erik Bloodaxe]

Lyndon Labuschagne wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2010, at 12:09 PM, Erik Bloodaxe wrote:
>
>   
>> Mail Scanner seems to object to MatLab files.  One user got a message:
>>
>> At Fri Feb 19 17:19:06 2010 the virus scanner said:
>>  MailScanner: Microsoft Access Shortcuts are dangerous in email (Spec_Power_New.mat)
>>
>> Can anyone point me to correcting this.
>>
>>     
> Hi Erik, What you need to do is check out the filename.rules file 
> the line you are looking for is this one, 
> deny    \.ma[dfgmqrstvw]$       Possible Microsoft Access Shortcut attack                               Microsoft Access Shortcuts are dangerous in email
>
> you can change that deny to allow or take the "t" out of the \.ma[dfgmaqrstvw] string, 
>
>
>   
Thanks for this.  I have edited the above line to say:

deny    \.ma[dfgmqrsvw]$        Possible Microsoft Access Shortcut 
attack            Microsoft Access Shortcuts are dangerous in email
#deny   \.ma[dfgmqrstvw]$       Possible Microsoft Access Shortcut 
attack            Microsoft Access Shortcuts are dangerous in email

but the .mat attachemnts are still being blocked.

How can I put mail scanner in a debug mode so that I can see it consider 
each rule in turn?

best

Rob

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