No virus checking for certain accounts?

[Brett Charbeneau]

        Ha! I tried this and it worked like a charm!
        Thanks for letting me think out loud here, folks!

Brett

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Brett Charbeneau wrote:

BC> > Usually what needs to work can be accomplished by other means. Or by
BC> > using rulesets to only allow certain sites to send you e-mail with
BC> > possibly dangerous tags.
BC>
BC>     This has some possibilities, although the issue is for automated
BC> messages which are OUTbound.
BC>     Let's see if I understand this correctly:
BC>     In MailScanner.conf I would set
BC>
BC> "Virus Scanning = /etc/MailScanner/rules/virus.scanning.rules"
BC>
BC>     and that file would contain something like:
BC>
BC> From:               naughtyclient at mydomain.org      no
BC> FromOrTo:   default                         yes
BC>
BC>
BC>     Or am I reading the ruleset README incorrectly?
BC>
BC> Brett Charbeneau, Network Administrator         Tel: 757-259-7750
BC> Williamsburg Regional Library                   FAX: 757-259-7798
BC> 7770 Croaker Road                               brett at wrl.org
BC> Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064                     http://www.wrl.org
BC>
BC> > -----Original Message-----
BC> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
BC> Behalf
BC> > Of Ugo Bellavance
BC> > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:33 PM
BC> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
BC> > Subject: Re: No virus checking for certain accounts?
BC> >
BC> > Alex Neuman wrote:
BC> >
BC> > > Or disarm.
BC> > >
BC> >
BC> > Yeah, I thought of that, but I guess the tags are there for a purpose,
BC> > so disarming might be even worse than blocking (makes you think it works
BC> > while it doesn't)
BC>
BC>
BC>

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Brett Charbeneau, Network Administrator         Tel: 757-259-7750
Williamsburg Regional Library                   FAX: 757-259-7798
7770 Croaker Road                               brett at wrl.org
Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064                     http://www.wrl.org

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