John,

> There is a mortgage/realty software called Point, produced by Calyx, 
> that has a .PCF file format for its data output.  These are simple 
> reports, not executables or macros or whatnot. 
...
> That list is the first place I checked.  The string "pcf" was not listed
> in $banned_filename_re in the first place.  The 'file' utility is
> spotting these, not by extension, but by file type "Windows executable".
>   The extension is .pcf, but the mail log excerpt looks like this.
>
> Jun  8 16:24:13 HOST amavis[880]: (00880-06) BANNED name/type (.exe)...

The file(1) utility does not care for a file name, it just checks the
contents. If the Calyx data output looks like a MS executable to
file(1), I'm afraid you will have to instruct the file(1), i.e. its
'magic' database, to distinguish Calyx results from true executables.

As a workaround, in newer amavisd-new versions you can place a 'permit'
rule of file NAME *.pcf BEFORE a 'block' rule for executables,
if that is acceptable.

  Mark



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