Cobalt RaQ - Can virus scanning be enabled only on selected V irtual Domain?

[Julian Field]

At 10:44 31/01/2002, you wrote:
>The scanning of email (or not) based upon sender/recipient domains etc
>is a feature which has been talked about extensively but not yet
>implemented.  Feelings are mixed about it.

I haven't had time to write it yet. It's on the list though.
Different people have asked for different things, some of which are far
easier to write than others. For now, I'm tempted to go with the easiest
solution from my point of view, as it's more likely to get written (at all)
that way. Make me do it the hard way and you may never see it at all...

So what I'm proposing is just a file which lists domains for which you scan
mail. If it sees any of these domains in the envelope to or from address,
then it scans the message. If it doesn't scan it, it will add something
like a "X-MailScanner: not scanned" header to advertise to your users that
they want to pay you to get their mail scanned.

Would this do?

>Has anyone (Jules ;P) given any thought to an option to allow you to
>run Mailscanner as a local delivery agent (or perhaps more correctly
>as a wrapper around an existing local delivery agent)?

If you want to crank up a big binary like Perl every time you run a
delivery agent, then use amavis :-)
This design difference is one of the major reasons that MailScanner is so
much less load on your system than Avamis.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul [mailto:hyooga at WT.NET]
> > Sent: 31 January 2002 02:41
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Cobalt RaQ - Can virus scanning be enabled only
> > on selected
> > Virtual Domain?
> >
> >
> > I believe it will scan all the mail. It comes into your
> > mqueue.in first
> > then sendmail
> > processes it. Your virtual domain is setup in sendmail. It
> > will scan all
> > the mails as far as I know. About how to set up to scan
> > individual virtual
> > domain, there are experts in this list. I am not sure how to do it
>:)
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Rishi Gangoly wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I've just installed the mailscanner software on my Cobalt
> > RaQ3....... It works.  ;-)
> > >
> > > However, it is possible to enable Virus Scanning only on
> > selected Virtual Domains?
> > >
> > > I noticed the following option in the mailscanner.conf file.
> > >
> > > # Do you want to scan email for viruses?
> > > # A few people have wanted to disable the entire virus scanning.
> > > Virus Scanning     = yes
> > >
> > > This option would apply to all the Virtual Domains..... right?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Rishi
> > >
> > > --
> > > This message has been scanned for viruses and
> > > dangerous content, and is believed to be clean.
> > >
> > >
> >

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