Hi Julian,<br><br><b><i>Julian Field <MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br><br><br>shuttlebox wrote:<br>> On Nov 27, 2007 3:08 PM, Michael Mansour <micoots@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>> <br>>> %etc-dir%/example.com.filename.rules:<br>>><br>>> and %etc-dir%/example.com.filetype.rules:<br>>> <br>><br>> Those filenames don't match what you have in your rulesets, note the<br>> missing .conf at the end:<br>><br>> <br>>> FromOrTo: *@example.com<br>>> /etc/MailScanner/example.com.filename.rules.conf<br>>> FromOrTo: default /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf<br>>><br>>> FromOrTo: *@example.com<br>>> /etc/MailScanner/example.com.filetype.rules.conf<br>>> FromOrTo: default
/etc/MailScanner/filetype.rules.conf<br>>> <br>><br>> Also, you do have tabs as whitespace in both files and no strange<br>> end-of-lines, common if you edit the files in Windows?<br>> <br>The only places you need tabs instead of spaces are in the <br>example.com.filetype/name.rules.conf and filetype/name.rules.conf files.<br>You can use any whitespace in *.rules files.<br></micoots@yahoo.com></blockquote>I'm using:<br><br>mailscanner-4.65.3-1.noarch<br><br>I've spent the last 5 hours trouble-shooting this problem (in addition to the 2 hours I spent last night) and I believe MS is broken with this filename/filetype blocking now.<br><br>What I did was globally set the /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf and /etc/MailScanner/filetype.conf to deny (I also did deny+delete) all movie files and tested for the swf extension too.<br><br>Movie files were still let through even when this was a global setting.<br><br>I then tried simply attaching something I
knew 100% would fail, a web link (.lnk file), and it passed through fine.<br><br>What sort of thing / setting in MS would allow this to happen? ie. allowing anything through?<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Michael.<br><br><p> 
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