Tr : Problems with office files being wrongfully blocked

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Mar 5 10:36:57 GMT 2010


Try just commenting out the "ELF" line in filetype.rules.conf, then do a 
"service MailScanner reload".

On 05/03/2010 09:41, gnafou wrote:
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> We 've been haviing the same problem.
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> For some senders, sending a  word document file ( .doc ) ; the attached docuemnts are blocked stating ' No executables '
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> file output ->
> /tmp/aaa.doc: CDF V2 Document, Little Endian, Os: Windows, Version 5.1, Code page: 1252, Author: xx, Template: Normal, Last Saved By: xx, Revision Number: 4, Name of Creating Application: Microsoft Word 10.0, Total Editing Time: 40:00, Last Printed: Sun Jan 31 13:18:00 2010, Create Time/Date: Sun Jan 31 12:51:00 2010, Last Saved Time/Date: Sun Jan 31 13:31:00 2010, Number of Pages: 1, Number of Words: 318, Number of Characters: 1755, Security: 0
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> file -i output ->
> /tmp/aaa.doc: application/msword; charset=binary
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> MailScanner version 4.74.16
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Jules

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