mailscann and japanese filename on attachement

Tomoki Taniguchi tomoki.taniguchi at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 08:05:42 UTC 2007


OK strange...  i just tried to replicate the problem, but was able to
receive japanese titled files just now....

below is the original message.

<SNIP>
This is a message from the MailScanner E-Mail Virus Protection Service
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The original e-mail attachment "28J1B%28J_.xls"
is on the list of unacceptable attachments for this site and has been
replaced by this warning message.

If you wish to receive a copy of the original attachment, please
e-mail helpdesk and include the whole of this message
in your request. Alternatively, you can call them, with
the contents of this message to hand when you call.

At Tue Mar 20 11:32:02 2007 the virus scanner said:
   MailScanner: Very long filenames are good signs of attacks against
Microsoft e-mail packages (28J1B%28J_.xls)
<SNIP>

On 6/28/07, Aram Yegenian <aramyegenian at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What exactly is the error message you're getting? The
> sender and receiver should get an email from
> Mailscanner stating exactly why the email was
> quarantined. After that you have to check
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf to see which rules
> are being triggered. There's also
> /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf which contains
> the actual list of rules.
>
> Regards,
> Aram Yegenian
>
> --- Tomoki Taniguchi <tomoki.taniguchi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have very simple postfix/Mailscanner
> > system setup.  currently mailscanner
> > quarentines attachments that have  a japanese
> > filename.
> > how do i get it so mailscanner doesn't quarentine a
> > file
> > just because it uses japanese filenames?
> >
> > tia,
> > tomoki taniguchi
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