No Scanning if one is in To

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Oct 14 19:03:26 IST 2004


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At 15:47 14/10/2004, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>ok..the subject is a bit strange, but i´ve got a problem.
>
>One of my users does not want his mails scanned for Viruses nor for spam.
>So i had made a rule, which is as followed:
>
>To:     user at domain         no
>
>and put these into virus.scanner.rules and to spam.scanner.rules..
>
>the default for action is then yes
>
>Ok..everythings works fine..as long as this user is the only one in the
>TO-Field.
>
>For example..
>
>A mail containing a virus is getting in.. The To-Field contains 2 Users:
>The Person, who does not want his mails to be scanned, and me.
>
>The Mail slippes trhough unscanned for both persons..
>
>In both mails i do find the following:
>
>X-irc-addicts.de-MailScanner:   Not scanned: please contact your Internet
>E-Mail Service Provider for details
>
>To find this in the mail to the person, who does not want his mails to be
>scanned is ok..but to see this within the mail to myself..is a bit
>strange, as my mails should be scanned..
>
>The same problem does happen with the use of spamassassin via procmail.
>This user is in the config with getting all spam..and voila..all persons
>in the to-field get unscanned..
>
>Is there a workaround for this behaviour?

I have moved it from being a first match to an all match which makes more 
sense for this option. Very few people allow users to selectively choose 
virus scanning, so it's never come up before. It will change in the next 
release.
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