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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi there --</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I received a request to have .dat files be allowed through our mail server. Files of this type </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">were normally sent to quarantine with an e-mail notification report stating the following:</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Report: MailScanner: No programs allowed (set.dat)</FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Report: MailScanner: No programs allowed (set.dat)</FONT></B>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I reconfigured the filename.rules.conf and filetype.rules.conf files to allow the above file</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">types to pass through without problem. Listed below are the syntaxes from each of the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">configuration files:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">filename.rules.conf</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"># Physics has requested that files of this type be allowed...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">allow \.dat$ </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">filetype.rules.conf</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">allow dat - Physics requested these be allowed</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Once these changes were made, MailScanner along with the mailserver, Sendmail, were</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">restarted via the /etc/init.d/MailScanner script. There were no failed messages appearing</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">on-screen when this occurred.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The problem is the following: even though the files in question have been configured to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">be allowed, they are still being blocked and sent to quarantine. The version of MailScanner</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">is 4.72.5 while that of Sendmail is 8.14.1.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">What other steps and/or</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">corrections do I need to make in order to fix this? Thanks. </FONT>
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