signing outgoing clean messages

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Oct 22 12:14:50 IST 2002


I have just tried this myself and it works for me. I tried changing the
filenames too, just in case that was the problem, and it still works.

Does it put anything helpful in your maillog at all?

At 11:56 22/10/2002, you wrote:
>MailScanner V4.01-3. RH 7.3. Sendmail 8.12.6
>
>I'm unable to have outgoing mails signed.
>
>I did the following in MailScanner.conf:
>Inline HTML Signature = /etc/MailScanner/reports/en/alf.disclaimer.html
>Inline Text Signature = /etc/MailScanner/reports/en/alf.disclaimer.txt
>Sign Clean Messages = /etc/MailScanner/rules/outgoing.sign.rules
>
>outgoing.sign.rules has:
>    To:          alfinance.com           no
>    From:        default                 yes
>
>I cannot give IP filter as we have dial in customers. The above rules
>(matching domain name) ensures that incoming mail is not signed but outgoing
>is. My mails went unsigned.
>
>To check this out, I changed "Sign Clean Messages = yes" from the ruleset.
>My mails still went unsigned. This means the system is not able to access
>the files? Is it a problem with file permissions? read access does exist 644
>for root.root for these files just like the other files.
>
>I'm fairly certain I've made the mistake but do not know where. HELP. Is
>there a way of logging what rule sets are getting applied to mails so that
>we can find out if the file made it thro' the rule set or not? Is some perl
>module not installed properly?

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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