That's exactly what I want to do. I just want to block dangerous extensions. nothing more. Anti-virus & spam is already handled elsewhere. what do i need to do to the filters to achieve just this function? Thanks. - Fabian S.
On Mon, 04/28/2014 02:09 PM, Mișu Moldovan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 April 2014 20:41, Fabian Santiago <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks. Do you know if mimedefang needs to be set to run as a specific > > user, such as 'axigen'? > > AFAIR, we run MIMEDefang as user defang and configured ClamAV to run > as the same user at the beginning. Then I got sick that almost every > time the queue grew unexpectedly it was the AV's fault and I disabled > it entirely and only relied on blocking a list of executable > extensions in our filter, including inside archives. > > I think we also blocked encrypted ZIPs, so the way to send a file with > a problematic extension would have been either to change its extension > (eg. EXE->EX_) or encrypt it in some other way. > _______________________________________________ > NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above > message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. > > Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com > MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang > _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
