Disabling virus scanning for outbound e-mail w/ attachments

[Julian Field]

Someone fancy writing up a few things like this in the faq-o-matic? It
seems to have gone very quiet. No-one has actually written very much
content for it yet.

At 14:45 21/03/2003, you wrote:
>Julian - you are a gentlemen and a scholar. Thank you.
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>Matthew K Bowman
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>Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>Sent by: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>03/21/2003 09:42 AM
>Please respond to MailScanner mailing list
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>         To:     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Disabling virus scanning for outbound e-mail
> w/ attachments
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>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?
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>Yes.
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> >Or would one just have to disable Virus Scanning for their entire domain?
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>No.
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>Set
>Filename Rules = /etc/MailScanner/rules/filename.rules.rules
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>In that file put this:
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>From:   domain.com      /etc/MailScanner/allow.everything
>FromOrTo:       default         /etc/MailScanner/filename.rules.conf
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>In the "allow.everything" file put this:
>allow   .       -       -
>(remembering to put tabs between each of the 4 words on that line).
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>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".
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>The "allow.everything" file just works by having 1 rule which will match
>any filename, allowing it.
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support