don't scan outgoing exim queue?

[Julian Field]

At 19:33 14/04/2004, you wrote:
>The setup: I have exim (3.36) and mailscanner 4.28 on debian/woody.  I have
>the split config files, using init and seperate spools for incoming and
>outgoing (exim conf and MailScanner conf available upon request).  Note that
>exim_incoming is used for both people sending us mail, as well as all
>outgoing mail that's sent from the client machines, so the incoming/outgoing
>is kinda disengenous.
>
>The problem:  I have users sending files like 03145.mip.doc (<-real example)
>to other architects quite a bit.  Of course, the file extension hiding picks
>up on that, and quarintines the outgoing message.  Now, we really *want* the
>file extension hiding protection for *incoming* messages, but it's biting us
>hard for outgoing.  Seeing as getting architects to change their ways is a
>fruitless venture, how can I configure it so that mailscanner doesn't scan
>outgoing messages, just incoming (maybe by seeing if the reciever is local or
>not)?

I hate to have to make by far the most frequent reply on this list, but
please investigate rulesets.

You can make a ruleset produce one filenames.rules.conf file for your
friendly architects, and one for everyone else. Or just switch off scanning
for outgoing message and not for incoming messages.

Read /etc/MailScanner/rules/*
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