Filename Restrictions Not working

[Jerry Benton]

Yes, you do not have to edit MailScanner.conf directly at all. You can put your settings in a con file in the ./conf.d directory. 

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Feb 23, 2015, at 2:51 PM, James Nelson <James.Nelson at vgt.net> wrote:
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> Here's my complete MailScanner.conf:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/ci9dz8iL
> 
> Jerry:
> 
> I changed default to *@* this morning in the course of my, "did that work? No, okay, how about this," but the result was the same regardless.
> 
> I'm not applying any configuration via conf.d at the moment...if I were to do that, would it supersede anything in MailScanner.conf?
> 
> 
> 
> “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 Kevin Miller
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 12:50 PM
> To: 'MailScanner discussion'
> Subject: RE: Filename Restrictions Not working
> 
> Maybe you could post your MailScanner.conf to pastebin.  I'm guessing something in there is wonky.
> 
> ...Kevin
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> Kevin Miller
> Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.
> 155 South Seward Street
> Juneau, Alaska 99801
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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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