If anyone trys to send me a link in a email Exim send them back the following message

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

johntreo@1hostplus.com
This message has been rejected because it has
a potentially executable attachment "magicshop.url"
This form of attachment has been used by
recent viruses or other malware.
If you meant to send this file then please
package it up as a zip file and resend it.


How can I fix this!

That's one of the "features" of the Exim message filter. I personally find it quite annoying. I use the Send Link by E-mail feature on IE a lot.

To turn it off check your exim.conf file and look for a message_filter= line. Edit the file listed and look for something like this:

if $header_content-type: matches "(?:file)?name=(\"[^\"]+\\\\.(?:ad[ep]|ba[st]|c
hm|cmd|com|cpl|crt|eml|exe|hlp|hta|in[fs]|isp|jse?|lnk|md[be]|ms[cipt]|pcd|pif|r
eg|scr|sct|shs|url|vb[se]|ws[fhc])\")"
then
fail text "This message has been rejected because it has\n\
potentially executable content $1\n\
This form of attachment has been used by\n\
recent viruses or other malware.\n\
If you meant to send this file then please\n\
package it up as a zip file and resend it."
seen finish
endif

Remove the url extension from there and that should get rid of the problem.

Richard