Disabling virus scanning for outbound e-mail w/ attachments

[Matthew Bowman]

Julian - you are a gentlemen and a scholar. Thank you.


Matthew K Bowman





Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
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03/21/2003 09:42 AM
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        Subject:        Re: Disabling virus scanning for outbound e-mail w/ attachments


At 14:34 21/03/2003, you wrote:
>Greetings
>
>A client of ours has requested that all of their outbound e-mail is not
>passed through
>for filename checking (so they can send out .exe .bat files etc) but they
>still want
>outbound e-mail checked for Viruses.
>
>Is this possible with version 4.13-3 of mailscanner?

Yes.

>Or would one just have to disable Virus Scanning for their entire domain?

No.

Set
Filename Rules = /etc/MailScanner/rules/filename.rules.rules

In that file put this:

From:   domain.com      /etc/MailScanner/allow.everything
FromOrTo:       default         /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf

In the "allow.everything" file put this:
allow   .       -       -
(remembering to put tabs between each of the 4 words on that line).

This has created a ruleset so that mail from domain.com gets the
"allow.everything" filename rules file. Everyone else gets the normal
"filename.rules.conf".

The "allow.everything" file just works by having 1 rule which will match
any filename, allowing it.
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