Problem with new 'rename' action. was: Bug in incomplete linkhandling in phishing checks

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Wed Nov 10 00:21:05 GMT 2010


Jules Field wrote:

>Please can you try this with 4.82.2 and let me know if you still get 
>this error in your maillog.
>
>On 09/11/2010 20:55, Mark Sapiro wrote:
[...]
>>
>> I have just updated Mailscanner to 4.82.1-1 which apparently contains
>> the above patch. So far, I see no issues with the patch, but I did see
>> the following in my maillog upon restarting after the upgrade.
>>
>> Nov  9 12:24:07 sbh16 MailScanner[32297]: Possible syntax error in first
>> keyword on line 22 of /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf
>>
>> Refers to the line
>>
>> rename	\.fdf$			Dangerous Adobe Acrobat data-file						Opening this file
>> can cause auto-loading of any file from the internet
>>
>> Nov  9 12:24:07 sbh16 MailScanner[32297]: Possible syntax error in first
>> keyword on line 31 of /etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules.conf
>>
>> Refers to the line
>>
>> rename	Registry	Windows Registry entries (renamed)	Windows Registry
>> files (renamed)


With 4.82.2-1, I am getting only the usual startup messages. I am not
seeing the above messages.

Thanks for the prompt response.

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