Hi Peter,<br><br><b><i>shuttlebox <shuttlebox@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Nov 29, 2007 1:31 AM, Michael Mansour <micoots@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>> I also have the tnef installed but because I have tried different extensions<br>> (wmv, lnk, swf) from different freemail providers, it wouldn't be because of<br>> tnef.<br><br>Turn on archiving for your own address so you can study the messages<br>as they enter MailScanner, you can unpack the attachments there and<br>run the file command on them and see what it says.<br></micoots@yahoo.com></blockquote>This was something I didn't think of trying, so I have taken your advice and ran an archive of mail.<br><br>I emailed myself a wmv from my gmail account, and got this:<br><br>dflATBKPHb018211<br><br>I then ran:<br><br># uudeview dflATBKPHb018211<br>Loaded from dflATBKPHb018211: ''
(Don_tjudgetooquickly3.wmv): Don_tjudgetooquickly3.wmv part 1 Base64<br><br>Found 'Don_tjudgetooquickly3.wmv' State 16 Base64 Parts 1 OK<br><br> -rw-r--r-- Don_tjudgetooquickly3.wmv is OK [d] (?=help) d<br> File successfully written to /home/MailScanner/archive/20071129/Don_tjudgetooquickly3.wmv<br>1 file decoded from 1 input file, 0 failed<br><br>which produced:<br><br># ll<br>total 1534<br>-rw-rw---- 1 root root 889559 Nov 29 22:24 dflATBKPHb018211<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 658299 Nov 29 22:31 Don_tjudgetooquickly3.wmv<br><br>and we see this:<br><br># file Don_tjudgetooquickly3.wmv<br>Don_tjudgetooquickly3.wmv: Microsoft ASF<br><br>yet I have this denied here:<br><br>deny ASF No Windows media No Windows media files allowed<br><br>I'm really stumped why this is just let
through.<br><br>Michael.<micoots@yahoo.com></micoots@yahoo.com><br><micoots@yahoo.com></micoots@yahoo.com><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><micoots@yahoo.com>-- <br>/peter<br>-- <br>MailScanner mailing list<br>mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info<br>http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner<br><br>Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting<br><br>Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website! <br></micoots@yahoo.com></blockquote><br><p> 
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