Hi Noel,
Thanks for your quick and clear reply.
You where right about the brackets, the filename contains curly brackets
like:
Invoice4198-O{D2A4E3C9-0C71-4089-A24D-CC922611F105}.PDF
I will modify the $banned_filename_re to allow them.
Thanks again for your help!
Gr. Johan
Noel Jones-2 wrote:
>
> On 3/9/2010 9:26 AM, Johan Barelds wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> It seems that attachments with brackets in the name are beeing blocked by
>> amavis.
>> Is this a know feature? It there a workaround perhaps?
>> I have a client who can't change the names of the attached files and who
>> is
>> quit unhappy atm..
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> Gr. Johan Barelds
>
> Settings for what are blocked are your amavisd.conf file.
> Search for $banned_filename_re or $banned_namepath_re
> (probably only one of these is used). Edit these settings as
> you see fit, see the RELEASE_NOTES and the amavisd.conf-sample
> for instructions and hints.
>
> Brackets "[ ]" are not blocked.
>
> Maybe the file has a Microsoft Class ID extension -- something
> like "{755410F0-3C4C-485D-8A90-B248BE8C39CA}" -- such files
> can be used to force a particular program to open an
> attachment and it's dangerous to give an outsider such control
> over your system. However, the braces themselves are not
> blocked, only when they appear in a string that looks like a
> CLSID. If you need to allow these unsafe files, change your
> $banned_filename_re or $banned_namepath_re.
>
> -- Noel Jones
>
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