outgoing message processing?

Dan Swartzendruber dswartz at DRUBER.COM
Mon Oct 20 03:22:40 IST 2003


At 10:03 PM 10/19/2003 -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > At 08:03 PM 10/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > >have a look at spam.whitelist.rule in your $prefix/MailScanner/rules
> >
> > hmmm, well, it still has to run spamassassin to check the
> > whitelisting.  i
> > was thinking
> > more of some config trick.  i guess that won't work though.
> > it's not a
> > killer, i was just
> > wondering...
> >
>
>I don't think spamassassin is called if MailScanner has it in its whitelist.

it sure seems to be. i added my email address to the whitelist file in the
rules
directory and sent myself a test mail.  here's what i saw:

Oct 19 22:21:02 sphinx postfix/smtpd[23818]: connect from
manticore.druber.com[10.0.0.18]
Oct 19 22:21:02 sphinx postfix/smtpd[23818]: 4BE9BBB6C1:
client=manticore.druber.com[10.0.0.18]
Oct 19 22:21:02 sphinx postfix/cleanup[23819]: 4BE9BBB6C1:
message-id=<5.2.1.1.0.20031019222004.021a77e0 at 10.0.0.2>
Oct 19 22:21:02 sphinx postfix/smtpd[23818]: disconnect from
manticore.druber.com[10.0.0.18]
Oct 19 22:21:02 sphinx postfix/nqmgr[21527]: 4BE9BBB6C1:
from=<dswartz at druber.com>, size=540, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 19 22:21:02 sphinx postfix/nqmgr[21527]: 4BE9BBB6C1:
to=<dswartz at druber.com>, relay=none, delay=0, status=deferred (deferred
transport)
Oct 19 22:21:04 sphinx MailScanner[21705]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
865 bytes
Oct 19 22:21:04 sphinx MailScanner[21705]: Spam Checks: Starting
Oct 19 22:21:09 sphinx MailScanner[21705]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Oct 19 22:21:09 sphinx MailScanner[21705]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
Oct 19 22:21:09 sphinx postfix/nqmgr[21589]: 071AC77D0A:
from=<dswartz at druber.com>, size=648, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 19 22:21:10 sphinx postfix/local[23922]: 071AC77D0A:
to=<dswartz at druber.com>, relay=local, delay=8, status=sent
("|/usr/bin/procmail")

Note the 5-second lag between the spam checks message and the virus and
content scanning message...



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