Different rules based on Queue?

[Stephen Swaney]

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com

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> Behalf Of John Rudd
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 12:51 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Different rules based on Queue?
>
> Our mail servers do some routing and some local delivery, plus the usual
> set up for Mailscanner has scanning being done before list expansion.
> The result is that it's hard (perhaps impossible) to do per-user
> preferences for spam assassin and per-user bayes databases, because at
> the point where MailScanner gets the message there might be mulitple
> recipients (so only one of them will determine the results for all of
> them), or it might be to someone off campus (who wont have any prefs at
> all), or it might be to a list (again, no per-user prefs at all, but
> then the list might contain local users).

Using sendmail extended queue groups can split a message for multiple
recipients up into individual messages, one for each recipient, before
MailScanner picks up the message. See:
    http://www.murty.net/qgrpx/

I've put the instruction on how to do this in the FAQ (twice) but now I
can't find the instructions.


Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com
>
> What I've thought about doing is having 2 mailscanner queues.  One for
> pre-(list/multiple-recipient/routing) expansion that just does global
> work (virus scanning, general spam assassin scan, etc.), and then one
> for per-user spam scanning (with messages inserted into the queue only
> after the message has been boiled down to exactly one recipient).  The
> first queue would not have per-user spam assassin prefs files, per-user
> spam thresholds, nor individual bayes databases.  The second queue
> would.
>
> I know there's a way to have mailscanner use multiple queues (but I
> haven't played with it at all).  Can each queue have it's own sets of
> rules/preferences?  Or can a "rules" file be based upon the queue and
> not just the from/to/relay information?
>
> Or would it be easier to just have 2 copies of mailscanner installed,
> each with different queues and different configurations?
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