[PLUG] amavisd-new and banned files

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Mon Jan 17 20:26:58 UTC 2005


Richard C. Steffens <rsteff.l at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Monday 17 January 2005 10:17 am, Galen Seitz wrote:
> > I need to let someone mail me a .exe file, but I'm having trouble.  I
> > added the following line to amavisd.conf and reloaded amavisd, but it is
> > still blocking the email due to a banned filename.
> 
> Wouldn't it be easier to have the sender rename the file and change the .exe 
> extension, or just drop it? Or does amavis inspect the content of the file in 
> addition to looking at the filename?
> 

amavis runs the file command to determine the file type, so renaming 
wouldn't help.

I figured out my mistake.  Whitelisting only works on the recipient address,
since the sender address is easily forged.

galen




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