Whitelist - Custom Configuration

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : NateDog [mailto:natedog550 at HOTMAIL.COM]
>Envoyé : 10 avril, 2004 19:06
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: Whitelist - Custom Configuration
>
>
>Cool, thanks for your help.  I figured it had to be something 
>like that.
>Sorry about the non-plain text thing.  Dang hotmail.
>
>I checked out the examples file.  For example #5 is "Only 
>virus scan some
>domains".  So basically I want to do the opposite of that - I 
>want to scan
>all domains. 

All domains are scanned by default.
Concentrate on the 

Spam Checks = 

setting.

The key to understanding MailScanner's config is on reading and re-reading MailScanner.conf...


> I see: "FromorTo:    default    no"  I think I 
>can take it
>from here.  :)  And I'll try to get some help from proftpd on the virus
>scanning of FTPs like you said unless someone here has any ideas ;)
>Neways........thanks a lot for your help!
>
>--
>Nathan Peters
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Ugo Bellavance" <ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:57 PM
>Subject: Re: Whitelist - Custom Configuration
>
>
><UB>
>Please use plain-text when posting.  See below for answers.
></UB>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Nathan Peters [mailto:natedog550 at HOTMAIL.COM]
>Envoyé : 10 avril, 2004 15:45
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Whitelist - Custom Configuration
>
>
>Hello again,
>  I have sent this once.  And I was wondering if it just went 
>into oblivion
>or no one knows what I'm alking about.  But if someone could just kinda
>point me in a direction to go or any ideas would be greatly 
>appreciated.
>
><UB>
>Maybe you should have taken a look to the archives, that's the 
>most asked
>question.
></UB>
>
>My original email:
>
>  I have used mail scanner with f-prot and spam assassin for 
>about a year
>now.  But what I have always wanted to do was to add people to 
>the whitelist
>to keep from scanning for SPAM but I still want it to scan for 
>viruses.  Is
>that possible?  I use f-prot for virus scanning.  Right now 
>what it does is
>not scan it for anything at all if you put their name on the whitelist.
>I've got the next to latest stable version of mail scanner and 
>almost the
>latest f-prot on our current mail server - in this case I 
>don't think that
>really matters as far as what I'm wanting to do.  But I will 
>be changing it
>to another box I built with the latest and greatest stable 
>versions soon.
>
><UB>
>You need to use rulesets.  See here:
>http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/230.html
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/207.html
>and the EXAMPLES file in the rules directory.
></UB>
>
>  Then I would also like to do something else.  This may need 
>to be directed
>to a f-prot mailing list if someone can't help me here (I sent 
>an email to
>them and they haven't responded).  What I'd like to do is to! 
>use f-prot to
>automatically scan all FTP transfers.  I'm using proftpd.  
>Some info you
>might want to know is I have it set to "cage" each user into their home
>directory.  So if I FTP in I would go to /home/nathan.  And 
>you can't back
>out of that you're caged into that directory only.  Is that 
>possible to scan
>any FTP transfer for viruses?  And I would like it to email me 
>when it finds
>a virus just like it does now when it finds a virus in an 
>email.  If someone
>could help me figure it out I'd appreciate it.  The whitelist 
>stuff is more
>important - I can worry about the scanning of FTPs till later but just
>thought I'd ask.  Thanks.
>
><UB>
>I don't know, but this isn't mail-related.  Why not ask proftpd's list?
></UB>
>
>--
>Nathan Peters
>