Oliver,

> i'm new to amavis. There is one thing that i worry about the way
> amavis do the virus-checking:
>
> Why do amavis handle unknown filetypes (e.g. unknown archives, like
> SITX or so) as OK and letting them through ?
> I think this behaveiour is very insecure.

It is as insecure as you configure it to be.

> Can i change this ?

You can add a catchall rule to the end of the $banned_filename_re list
to block everything else which isn't explicitly allowed by rules earlier in 
this list. (but you may not like the result)

  Mark


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