Preventing outgoing mail from being scanned for spam

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Tue Mar 30 20:57:32 IST 2004


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Jason Williams [mailto:jwilliams at COURTESYMORTGAGE.COM] 
> Envoyé : 30 mars, 2004 14:54
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Preventing outgoing mail from being scanned for spam
> 
> 
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I'm currently trying to find out how to stop mailscanner from scanning
> outbound mail for spam. Here is my setup:
> 
> Using MS on our Company DMZ, acting as a mail gateway. Doing 
> all the goodie
> tricks; spam checking, virus checking. It then forwards all 
> the mail to our
> internal Lotus Domino server. Testing so far, everything works great.
> 
> Now, when email is sent from Lotus Notes client, it goes from 
> the client,
> to the domino server, back out through the mail gateway. I 
> want to have
> outbound mail scanned for viruses, but not spam.
> 
> Is it possible to setup a rule of some sort to stop outbound 
> spam scanning,
> but still leave it enabled for incoming?

Yes.

Please read the documentation in /etc/MailScanner/rules/* and 

http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/230.html
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/207.html


> 
> Server specs:
> 
> FreeBSD 4.9
> MS 4.28
> Sendmail 8.12.11
> Clamav 0.67
> 
> I appreciate the help.
> 
> Jason
> 




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