Thanks Mark, works like a charm, although I am beginning to think, tat I 
need to relax my rules a little.

Thanks for amavisd-new, BTW. Makes my life a lot easier!

All the best,

.peter

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Mark Martinec wrote:

> Peter,
>
>> Several times in the past I have had the problem of files that were pgp
>> signed not getting through, because in the conf file it says that files
>> with attachments ending with .asc should be blocked.
>>
>> Jan 13 15:30:59 xxxxx.tld /usr/sbin/amavisd[14266]: (14266)
>> p.path BANNED:1 [email protected]: "P=p004,L=1,M=multipart/signed |
>> P=p002,L=1/2,M=application/pgp-signature,T=pgp,T=pgp.asc,N=signature.asc,A=
>> C",
>> matching_key="(?ix-sm:.\\.(ade|adp|app|asc|bas|bat|cab|chm|cmd|com|cpl|crt|
>> csh|exe|fxp|hlp|\n
>> hta|inf|ins|isp|js|jse|ksh|lnk|mda|mdb|mde|mdt|mdw|mdz|msc|msi|\n
>> msp|mst|ops|pcd|pif|prf|prg|reg|scf|scr|sct|shb|shs|shb|url|vb|\n
>> vbe|vbs|wsc|wsf|wsh)$)"
>
>> Is there a way to keep the .asc files blocked but let pgp signature files
>> through, or am I simply paranoid wanting to block .asc files?
>
> You could place an allow rule before your blocking rule, e.g. based on
> a file name:
>  [ qr'^signature\.asc$'=> 0 ],
> or based on a 'short file type':
>  [ qr'^\.pgp\.asc$'=> 0 ],
>
> I'd say that blocking a filename ending in .asc is perhaps
> too paranoid. Virus scanners should be able to cover most threats.
>
>  Mark
>
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