Disable Virus Scanning for local mail

[Spicer, Kevin]

Assuming all messages to the mailing list server go through your MS server I would have thought the best (and safest) answer would be not to scan mail _from_ your mailing list server but to continue to scan mail _to_ you mailing lists server [ since the mailing list server presumably only resends mail sent into it? ]  That way you avoid any problems caused by someone sending a virus to a list.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Obaid [mailto:marco at MUW.EDU]
> Sent: 16 April 2003 13:23
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Disable Virus Scanning for local mail
> 
> 
> Good day all,
> 
> I have a mailing list with about 1500 subscribers which 
> resides on a different
> server than my MailScanner server. Everytime a member sends 
> an e-mail the load
> on the server jumps so high for about 55 to 70 seconds. It 
> almost freezes the
> server for that period. My mail server is running a dual xeon 
> 700mhz with 2mb
> of cache on each processor and all scsi drives with 3GB RAM.
> 
> All the subscribers to this mailing list are local users of 
> my MailScanner
> server (mail server). Would it be advisable to *not* scan 
> messeages sent within
> my local domain? and what is the best way to do this?
> 
> I created a ruleset called virus.scanning.rules, which has:
> 
> FromOrTo:   localhost  no
> FromOrTo:   *@my.mailing.list.server no
> FromOrTo:   default  yes
> 
> Is this correct?
> 
> I am afraid of adding From: mydomain.edu no which may not 
> scan outgoing mail.
> 
> I should mention that the mailman server is handeling html 
> stripping and is not
> allowing any attachments period so I am not worried about 
> dangerous mail coming
> from the mailing list.
> 
> Please advise
> Thank you
> Marco
> 
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