Re: [AMaViS-user] Banned files and Zip files

[Mark M. <Mar...@ij...>]

Adam,

| With the banned files I thought it would only ban files that appear 
| directly in the email, for example an attachment call meep.exe
| Now it appears that it will even refuse banned files which are inside 
| archives, zip files for example.

Yes (based on their contents as classified by file(1), not on their name)

| I do not know if this is a good idea or not. It is fine them been 
| banned as direct attachments but I think that if this are within 
| an archive then they should be allowed through.
| 
| It is possible to add a configuration flag to control the banning 
| within archives.

In the released version it is not possible to configure it,
the closest thing is to disable decoding of zip files.

In the development version you have much more flexibility,
this is possible both with the reworked $banned_filename_re logic
(described in amavisd.conf) as well as with an even more flexible
$banned_namepath_re (an explanation attempt in RELEASE_NOTES).

The last development snapshot is:
  http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/amavisd-new-20040415.tar.gz

Mark