No Scanning if one is in To

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Thu Oct 14 18:37:01 IST 2004


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Marcel Blenkers 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..

You cannot have rules for virus scanning.  It scans everything or nothing.

> 
> 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 know it's been discussed on this list.  Did you search the archive?

- You should not hijack a thread.  When you want to post, create a new 
message, don't just reply to one.

> 
> Greetings
> 
> Marcel
> 
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