Somehow I overlooked the tnef part of the extension. Yes,
that should
correct the problem.
Thanks!!
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Black" <chris lotuscat.com>
To: "David Parish" <dparishhostedmatrix.com>
Cc: "maia-users" <maia-usersrenaissoft.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Maia-users] winmail.dat
> David Parish wrote:
>
>> How do I turn off checking of this attatchment? It
is sent from some
>> Outlook client users using RTF for email
composition.
>> I looked at the amavisd.conf and found no reference
to it.
>> winmail.dat
>>
>
> How very timely, I am just this afternoon working on
this issue. What I
> have done is removed the "tnef" string from
the last line of banned
> attachments in amavisd.conf:
> # qr'^\.(exe|lha|tnef|cab|dll)$', # banned
file(1) types,
> original line
> # allow stupid outlook tnef winmail.dat attachments
> qr'^\.(exe|lha|cab|dll)$', # banned file(1)
types
>
> And then restarted amavis.
> I am not sure this is proper yet, but I believe it is.
On further
> investigation these winmail.dat attachments are tnef
encapsulated hooha. I
> also think this should be changed in the default config
as many
> outlook/exchange installs seem to be misconfigured in
this way.
>
> Chris
>
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