On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:46, Chris W. Parker wrote: > Edward Croft <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:25 AM said: > > > When I send a test message to myself from outside with a > > .exe or .com attachment, it does get through. I am still getting > > spams. I can see no errors anywhere. What might I be missing? > > What you are witnessing is MailScanner's file scanning rules in action. > By default MailScanner blocks emails with certain extensions. The > extension rules file is /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf (by > default). > > I chose to leave the file as is and give instructions to my users that > if they have problems with people sending attachments because of the > extension they (the sender) needs to rename the file with a .zip or .txt > extension. This way the file will get through and the recipient can just > rename the file after they save it. > > Although it causes a little bit of inconvenience I think it's totally > worth the fact that all the malicious attachments don't make it through > to us anymore, thus alleviating the possibility of a user opening any > attachments they shouldn't. > > Check out the file and you'll see what all is being blocked. > > > HTH, > Chris. > > p.s. If you feel you may be asking more questions do yourself a favor > and join the mailscanner list that's moderated by Julian Field (the > MailScanner author). It's really the best place to get mailscanner > questions answered.
Okay, I will do that. The problem wasn't that they were blocked. I expected them to be. It was that they got through. > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
