Incorectly blocking files.

[Jules Field]

If you read MailScanner.conf, you will discover it now has different 
rules for files within an archive from rules not within an archive.
See the option
     Archives: Filename Rules = %etc-dir%/archives.filename.rules.conf
so you need to remove the "t" from archive.filename.rules.conf.

I added this feature as a result of numerous requests.

Cheers,
Jules.

On 24/02/2010 12:56, Erik Bloodaxe wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 23/02/2010 09:49, Erik Bloodaxe wrote:
>>> 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.
>> You did tell MailScanner to re-read its configuration, didn't you? 
>> "service MailScanner reload" will do the job on a RedHat or Centos box.
>>>
>>> How can I put mail scanner in a debug mode so that I can see it 
>>> consider each rule in turn?
>>>
>>> best
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>
>> Jules
>>
> It appears that this file is being stopped for other reasons I do not 
> understand.  The system now allows through a plain text file with 
> extension .mat but a .mat file in a zip archive is withheld:
>
> This is a message from the MailScanner E-Mail Virus Protection Service
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The original e-mail attachment "Data.zip"
> is on the list of unacceptable attachments for this site and has been
> replaced by this warning message.
>
> At Wed Feb 24 12:52:08 2010 the virus scanner said:
>
>   MailScanner: Microsoft Access Shortcuts are dangerous in email 
> (Spec_Power_New.mat)
>
>
> the virus scanner is sophos and it has no problems with the file when 
> I run savscan on it.
>
> Can anyone assist?
>
> rob
>

Jules

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