Many thanks, reordering my rules had the desired effect, and using a higher 
log level gave me a better understanding of why the double-extensions rule 
was matching.

Cheers
Richard

On Thursday 29 March 2007 23:05, Mark Martinec wrote:
> Richard,
>
> > I've looked around the list archives, and the readme files, but have only
> > found general pointers to this problem. Basically I want to allow certain
> > when they are included in a zip file, but not if they are attached
> > directly.
>
> [...]
>
> > I would expect the rule-7 bit to allow an exe file to be allowed within
> > a zip file, however, I don't see the effect I hoped for.
> >
> > (14485-04) Blocked BANNED (P=p003,L=1,M=multipart/mixed |
> > P=p002,L=1/2,M=application/x-zip,T=zip,N=openvpn-2.0.7-gui-1.0.3-install.
> >zip
> >
> > | P=p0 04,L=1/2/1,T=exe,T=exe-ms,N=openvpn-2.0.7-gui-1.0.3-install.exe),
>
> It appears the entry was blocked because it matched the double-extensions
> rule, which is above rule-7, so it takes precedence. Log level 1 (or 3)
> would show more details on which rule matched, search for 'p.path' there.
> It seems you need to resuffle the rules, move rule-7 higher or
> rule for double-extensions lower. Or you may tighten up the
> double-extensions rule.
>
>   Mark

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