Don't scan outgoing mail

[Matt Doherty]

I have a issue where a department is usually sending *.reg files to itself..
ex: joeshmoe at hotdogs.com sending to >> jim at hotdogs.com; joe at hotdogs.com;
brian at hotdogs.com with a .reg extension attachment that mailscanner always
scoops up. . Gee I guess I'm hungry to use this as a dumb example.. Is there
a way to NOT scan mail sent to and from its own domain peers? And have
mailscanner just scan mail that's departing from its domain and entering its
domain instead? Im afriad to allow .reg files to be left alone and have
someone send us a .reg extention virus from outside our domain.


In a world without fences or walls, who needs Windows and Gates?

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
  Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:25 PM
  To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
  Subject: Re: Don't scan outgoing mail


  At 19:00 03/07/2002, you wrote:
  > I'm looking into deploying mailscanner on our departmental server
  > which is a Sun Ultra10 running Solaris 8 and sendmail 8.12.5. This
  > machine cares a heavy load and I would like to only scan incoming
  > mail and not scan outgoing mail. I don't see an option to turn off
  > scanning outgoing mail in the mailscanner.conf. Is it possible to
  > turn off outgoing scans?

  Use separate servers to handle your incoming and outgoing mail.
MailScanner
  doesn't differentiate between mail going in/out.
  --
  Julian Field Teaching Systems Manager
  jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
  Tel. 023 8059 2817 University of Southampton
  Southampton SO17 1BJ

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