[Kolab-devel] sending/receiving executables - BANNED

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 26 January 2005 16:09, Hamish wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > On Friday 21 January 2005 14:11, Hamish wrote:
> >>Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> >>>On Thursday 20 January 2005 11:30, Hamish wrote:
> >>>>We have the need to occasionally send and receive executable files via
> >>>>email, this is becoming a problem, because they are all blocked by
> >>>>amavisd (?), is there a way to get round this without disabling banned
> >>>>files?
> >>>>One way I though of was to "authorise" a user to bypass the check, is
> >>>>this possible?
> >>>
> >>>Both is possible, adapt the amavisd.conf template and run kolabconf.
> >>
> >>I have edited the amavis template and changed $final_banned_destiny to
> >>PASS. Im sure there is a better way to do this, but I haven't had time
> >>for this yet. Any hints welcome!
> >
> > Did you check to adapt the following seeting:
> > $banned_filename_re =
>
> I had a look for that and removed exe from the list, this did not help
> though - i think because it uses `file` to get the file type, so the
> extension does not matter, I could not see somewhere to let executables
> through - the only place i could see to work it out, was to allow the
> files for certain users (similar to virus-lovers I think) I have not
> played any further though.

Hmm I expected this to work.
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