Filename Restrictions Not working

[Kevin Miller]

Maybe you could post your MailScanner.conf to pastebin.  I'm guessing something in there is wonky.

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
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Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of James Nelson
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 9:26 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Filename Restrictions Not working
> 
> Well, an interesting update...
> 
> I changed up my approach, and pointed the Deny Filenames = in
> MailScanner.conf to %rules-dir%/filename_deny.rules , which is as
> follows:
> 
> To:	*@*	\.ico$ \.ani \.cur$ \.hlp$ \.zip$ \.ceo$ \.cab$ \.reg$ \.chm$
> \.cnf$ \.hta$ \.ins$ \.jse?$ \.job$ \.lnk$ \.mat$ \.pif$ \.scf$ \.sct$
> \.shs$ \.shb$ \.vb[es]$ \.ws[cfh]$ \.xnk$ \.cer$ \.its$ \.mau$ \.md[az]$
> \.prf$ \.pst$ \.tmp$ \.vsmacros$ \.vs[stw]$ \.ws$ \.com$ \.exe$ \.scr$
> \.bat$ \.cmd$ \.cpl$ \.mhtml$ \.s{10,} \.[a-z][a-z0-9]{2,3}\s*\.[a-z0-
> 9]{3}$
> 
> When running MailScanner --lint now, it DOES detect eicar.com as a
> blocked filetype.  However, it's still allowing blocked filetypes
> through ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> “a rockpile ceases to be a rockpile the moment a single man contemplates
> it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 4:11 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Filename Restrictions Not working
> 
> Its not beta anymore. (The RPM package.)
> 
> -
> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com
> 
> 
> 
> > On Feb 22, 2015, at 4:33 PM, James Nelson <James.Nelson at vgt.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > I will try that tomorrow...i'm about out of other ideas.
> >
> > I suppose I could also try the new MS beta, just to throw something
> else at the wall...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > “a rockpile ceases to be a rockpile the moment a single man
> contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
> > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 5:54 AM
> > To: MailScanner discussion
> > Subject: Re: Filename Restrictions Not working
> >
> > I’m not pimping my product, but I would suggest you install a
> Mailborder server for a comparison test. Check to see if it is working
> correctly (the Mailborder server) and compare the configs on the
> Mailborder server to yours. This will at least eliminate the Mailscanner
> configuration variable from the equation.
> >
> > -
> > Jerry Benton
> > www.mailborder.com
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Feb 21, 2015, at 2:29 AM, James Nelson <James.Nelson at vgt.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sigh, built a brand new MailScanner box from scratch...once again,
> everything works except filename checking. The only thing I changed was
> to disallow zip files(just changed allow to deny in
> filenames.rules.conf) and it still lets it all through.
> >>
> >> It just doesn't seem to want to work, with no errors to shed any
> light.
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