Attempt to hide real filename extension?
Jules Field
MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue May 11 20:18:23 IST 2010
On 11/05/2010 20:03, Timothy Barhorst wrote:
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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jules Field
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 4:26 PM
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> Subject: Re: Attempt to hide real filename extension?
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> On 10/05/2010 20:59, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
>
>>> How dangerous is this now? I get a lot of mails blocked because of this rule, do I need it?
>>>
>>>
> I certainly wouldn't remove it from my system. But then I'm likely to be
> biased :-)
>
>>> If not, what is the best way to relax this rule?
>>>
>>>
>
>
>> You can just comment it out or delete it from filename.rules.conf and
>> the "archives.filename.rules.conf" equivalent if you have one. Then
>> "service MailScanner reload" to force it to re-read its configuration files.
>>
>
>> Jules
>>
> What would the preferred method be to allow double or triple extensions through for just a particular domain?
>
You make a ruleset on the Filename Rules setting, and have that domain
use a different filename.rules.conf file.
There are plenty of examples of this in the book and the mailing list
archives, it's a very common question.
Jules
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