Filename Restrictions Not working

[Kevin Miller]

Do you have filename.rules and filetype.rules files or did you edit MailScanner.conf?

Here's my filename/type rules.  They're the default.  I presume they match yours.

/etc/MailScanner # cat filename.rules
From:           127.0.0.1       /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.allowall.conf
FromOrTo:       default         /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf

/etc/MailScanner # cat filetype.rules
From:           127.0.0.1       /etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules.allowall.conf
FromOrTo:       default         /etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules.conf

/etc/MailScanner # cat filename.rules.allowall.conf 
allow   .*      -       -

A while back I was having an issue where an Office365 Word doc was getting flagged as an executable and blocked.  I tried using the "Allow Filenames" and "Allow Filetypes" in MailScanner.conf.  The notes in there said that I'd have to an entry for both name and type.  I set "Allow Filetypes = \.exe$" and "Allow Filenames = /[0-9a-f]{4}\.dat$/I".  (I was trying to allow .dat files with a four character name composed of hexadecimal characters.  Specifically 0000.dat but not limited to it.)   The notes said the exception would have to match both rules to pass.  It didn't.  It had the odd effect of letting any .exe file through regardless of the name.

Have you tried reverting the filename.rules and filetype.rules back to the stock setting and mucking around in filename.rules.conf or filetype.rules.conf instead?

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
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