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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for the informative reply. I know the
rules have been discussed in here, but I was unsure how to handle the filename
rules. I know much is easily customized with MailScanner. The only unfortunate
thing about MailScanner is that I have not had enough to time to study and to
learn its powerful rule-based system. Once again, thank you pointing me in the
right direction even though rules had been discussed on prior
occasions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Walt Wyndroski</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=mailscanner@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK
href="mailto:mailscanner@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK">Julian Field</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
href="mailto:MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 12, 2003 2:07
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Selectively allow .exe
attachments</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Rulesets pointing to filename.rules.conf file have recently
been discussed here. Please search the mailing list
archive.<BR><BR>Basically,<BR><X-TAB> </X-TAB>Filename
Rules = /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules<BR>And in there put<BR>To: <A
href="mailto:user@domain.com">user@domain.com</A><X-TAB> </X-TAB>/etc/MailScanner/allow.exe.conf
/etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf<BR>FromOrTo: default
/etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf<BR><BR>In allow.exe.conf
put<BR>allow<X-TAB> </X-TAB>\.exe$<X-TAB> </X-TAB>-<X-TAB> </X-TAB>-<BR>(separate
the fields with tab
characters)<BR><X-TAB> </X-TAB><BR>At
18:53 12/10/2003, you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=arial size=2>I have a
customer who 'must' receive an .exe attachment periodically from there
parent company. The parent company said they would not rename the attachment
ant told their remote branch (my customer) to either have the ISP fix it or
find another service provider.</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>I'm thinking I can add a rule set in place of the .exe rule entry in
the filename.rules.conf. Is this feasible, and if so may I have a brief
example.</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>Would it be better to
make a rule for .exe which refers to another rule file then:</FONT><BR><FONT
face=arial size=2> 1) In that rule file, say if To: <A
href="mailto:customer@isp.com">customer@isp.com</A> 'another
rule.file' and 'Default deny'</FONT><BR><FONT face=arial
size=2> 2) Then in the another rule.file say From: parent
branch accept' and deny the rest.</FONT><BR> <BR> <BR><FONT
face=arial size=2>I know that is not the complete syntx, but just a brief
example. Is this worth pursuing or should I let it
go?</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>Thank you in
advance.</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>Walt
Wyndroski</FONT><BR><BR><BR>
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