[Mimedefang] Why did my Filter Reject this?

[Daniel Taylor]

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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