Preventing outgoing mail from being scanned for spam

Pete pete at eatathome.com.au
Tue Mar 30 23:28:09 IST 2004


Peter Bonivart wrote:

> Jason Williams wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
> I don't use it myself but you should be able to use a ruleset for "Spam
> Checks" where you list your Domino servers IP address as no and default
> as yes. Check the archives, this has been discussed before I think.
>
> --

Yeah just change the line Spam Checks = yes to Spam Checks =
/etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.rules
Then in side spam.rules have (the spaces are TABS not spaces) The IPs
should be the orinating Domino mails server/s

From:           128.99.99.12  no
From:           203.99.98.15    no
From:           203.99.98.20    no
FromOrTo:       default         yes



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