Clarification on stopping outbound spam scanning

[Julian Field]

At 22:12 01/05/2004, you wrote:
>Hello everyone.
>
>Just want to check on to see if my setup is working correctly. I have setup
>MailScanner to not scan outbound mail for spam from a internal mail server.
>
>Following these threads:
>
>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0306&L=mailscanner&P=R52562&I=-1
>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0403&L=mailscanner&P=R203572&I=-1
>
>I did the following:
>
>changed Spam Checks to...
>
>Spam Checks = /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.rules
>
>Created the spam.rules file and added the following:
>
>
>From:   192.168.1.165   no
>FromOrTo:       default yes
>
>After restarting MS, I sent a piece of mail through to see if it would be
>scanned and saw the following:
>
>May  1 14:08:01 mail sm-mta-in[238]: i41L817V000238:
>from=<jwilliams at courtesymortgage.com>, size=700, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>msgid=<5.2.1.1.0.20040501140912.00aeff50 at pop.courtesymortgage.com>,
>proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=[192.168.1.165]
>May  1 14:08:01 mail sm-mta-in[238]: i41L817V000238:
>to=<tarballed at yahoo.com>, delay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=30700, stat=queued
>May  1 14:08:02 mail MailScanner[227]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 1224
>bytes
>May  1 14:08:02 mail MailScanner[227]: Spam Checks: Starting
>May  1 14:08:02 mail MailScanner[227]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
>May  1 14:08:03 mail MailScanner[227]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
>May  1 14:08:04 mail sendmail[249]: i41L817V000238:
>to=<tarballed at yahoo.com>, delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp,
>pri=120700, relay=mx2.mail.yahoo.com. [64.156.215.18], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>(ok dirdel)
>
>Right in the middle, it stays Spam Checks: Starting

Don't worry about that. It is very hard to work out whether spam checks
have been disabled for every message in a batch without doing some
time-consuming calculations. So you will always get the log message, even
if it happens that every message in the batch has the spam checks disabled.

Check the headers of the outgoing messages, and you should find no
spam-check headers.


>So it appears I missed something and haven't been able to figure it out.
>
>I appreciate any help that you can lend me.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jason
>
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