[Mimedefang] Why did my Filter Reject this?
Daniel Taylor
dtaylor at vocalabs.com
Fri May 7 09:21:57 EDT 2004
Mark Penkower wrote:
> It appears that my filter bounced an email with a .doc extension. I
> have not instructed the filter to block this extension. Please explain
> why the filter bounced this, and what changes I can make to the filter
> to allow this in the future.
>
> MDLOG,i45JH3SL032136,bad_filename
> ,T. Rowe Price
> letter.doc,application/msword,<user at somewhere.org>,<user at royc
> enet.com>,comment letters
>
>
> I thought that the the filter did not like the naming convention, so I
> make a word document and called it:
>
> T. Rowe Price letter.doc
>
>
What you are seeing here is the difference between
"T. Rowe Price\nletter.doc" and "T. Rowe Price letter.doc"
The newline is what it would be catching.
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Daniel Taylor VP Operations Vocal Laboratories, Inc.
dtaylor at vocalabs.com http://www.vocalabs.com/ (952)941-6580x203
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