Fwd: Re: Allowing zip password protected files through

>Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:22:57 +0100
>To: Matt <[email protected]>
>From: Salvatore Toribio <[email protected]>
>Cc: Qmail Queue Scanner <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Qmail-scanner-general] Allowing zip password protected files
>  through
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>At 14:35 -0500 8-12-2006, Matt wrote:
>>Dony,
>>I found the file.. you are correct.. it was called.
>>quarantine-attachments.txt as I am running an older verison of QMS at
>>the moment on this machine.
>>
>>I don't see anything pre-defined about the header.. further I don't
>>understand.... when you zip a file and send it does it append that to
>>the headers?  I've never seen that.
>
>So, if you are using version 1.25 you have to edit the file
>/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue-125.pl then search for the variable

Sorry, the file is: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl   ;-)

ST

>#Block password protected zip files
>my $BLOCK_PASSWORD_PROTECTED_ARCHIVES='1';
>
>And set it to '0' but it won't be a goog idea since there virus that
>come in this way with the password in the body and some distracted
>user can open the file and get infected... It is your choice.
>
>ST
>
>>On 12/7/06, Olivier Dony <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>   On Dec 6, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Matt wrote:
>>>   > Hi,
>>>   > What do I need to do to allow qmail-scanner to allow a zip file with a
>>>   > password to come through the system?  Right now, it blocks them
>>>   > because it can't see the content of the file.
>>>
>>>   All policy-based rules are defined in quarantine-events.txt.
>>>   If you have a look in it, you will see this line related to your
>>>   question:
>>>
>>>   is-set  Policy-ZIPPASSWORDPROTECTED:    Password-protected Zip
>>>   disallowed by policy
>>>
>>>   This means that mails which have a ZIPPASSWORDPROTECTED header with a
>>>   value "is-set" will be blocked.
>>>   As explained in the comments above the line, this header is set
>>>   automatically by QMS when a password-protected ZIP file is detected.
>>>
>>>   To disable this rule, comment it out by adding a # at the beginning
>>>   of that line, and then run 'qmail-scanner-queue.pl -g' to update the
>>>   corresponding db file, as stated at the beginning of quarantine-
>>   > events.txt.
>>>
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