Spam Actions

[Julian Field]

MailScanner 4 forks off child processes to do the work (always best to keep
your children working :-)
You can control the number with the "Max Children" setting in
MailScanner.conf (default is 5, giving you 5+1 parent processes).

At 17:03 09/12/2002, you wrote:
>Ok I created a spam.actions.conf :-
>
>FromTo: *.spammers.com          delete
>FromTo: spam@*                  deliver
>To:     mbowman at udcom.com       delete
>FromTo: vbcomm.net  delete
>FromTo: default                 deliver
>
>However when I came to restart MailScanner I have now multiple mailscanners
>running (with service MailScanner restart)
>
>root     19972  0.0  0.8  9832 8228 ?        S    11:56   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>root     19973  0.3  1.4 16676 15236 ?       S    11:56   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>root     19978  0.3  1.4 16700 15260 ?       S    11:56   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>root     19980  0.3  1.4 16728 15284 ?       S    11:56   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>root     19986  0.3  1.4 16704 15260 ?       S    11:56   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>root     19988  0.3  1.4 16700 15260 ?       S    11:57   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
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>Not sure why...
>
>Matthew
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>At 15:24 09/12/2002, you wrote:
> >Using v4.10-1 on RH 7.2
> >
> >Where should the spam.actions.conf file be located and what format does it
> >need to be in?
> >
> >I used to have spam.actions.conf with version 3 but there is no reference
> >to this in the README files.
> >
> >All I want to do is control who gets spam delivered to them, who doesn't
> >(deleted or forwarded to the sysadmin)
>
>Take a look in the /etc/MailScanner/rules directory and you will find a
>couple of files that help explain the "rules" system used in Version 4, so
>that you can create the same effect as you got from using the
>spam.actions.conf file in Version 3. The new system is dead easy to use,
>and is far more flexible than the old one.
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support