Spam whitelist q?

Dan Farmer dan.farmer at PHONEDIR.COM
Fri Oct 31 17:36:59 GMT 2003


# Do you want to allow <Form> tags in email messages? This is a bad idea
# as these are used as scams to pursuade people to part with credit card
# information and other personal data.
# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
Allow Form Tags = yes

On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 10:24  AM, Kevin Hanser wrote:

> Ah, ok, that makes sense.
>
> However, where's the setting for the HTML form check?  I searched for
> HTML in the MailScanner.conf file, and didn't find it...  Am I looking
> in the wrong place or just not looking hard enough?
>
> Thx
>
> k
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Bonivart [mailto:peter at UCGBOOK.COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 11:53
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Spam whitelist q?
>
>
> No, the spam check is separate. You need to create a ruleset for the
> HTML form check. It's easy, look in /opt/MailScanner/etc/rules.
> Remember
> to name the file something ending with rules, like e.g. htmlform.rules.
>
> You can do that for the filename check also if you want to.
>
> /Peter Bonivart
>
> --Unix lovers do it in the Sun
>
> Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, MailScanner 4.23-11, SpamAssassin 2.60 + DCC
> 1.2.9, ClamAV 20030829
>
> Kevin Hanser wrote:
>> If I put a specific sender into the spam whitelist on MailScanner,
>> will that also whitelist them for the Filename checking?  I currently
>> have a customer whose users are complaining about some emails being
>> blocked that they used to receive (before we implemented the spam
>> relay).  They are getting blocked by the HTML form filename filter.
>> If I put the senders into the spam whitelist, will these messages then
>
>> get through? (or do i need to disable the HTML form check?)
>>
>> thx
>>
>> k
>



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