Stopping MailScanner for everything on domain except virus scanning

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Michael Mansour
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:08 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Stopping MailScanner for everything on domain except virus
> scanning
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a domain which I host email for, and I'd like
> MailScanner to _not_ do its job for most things except
> virus scanning (I don't want to "interfere" too much
> with their email unless they specifically ask me to).
> 
> To do this, I've added the following rulesets:
> 
> use.spamassassin.rules
> dangerous.content.scanning.rules
> 
> which contain basically the same thing, and that is:
> 
> FromOrTo:       *@domainname.com        no
> FromOrTo:       default                 yes
> 
> and I've told the MailScanner.conf file of their
> relevent ruleset using:
> 
> Use SpamAssassin = %rules-dir%/use.spamassassin.rules
> 
> and
> 
> Dangerous Content Scanning =
> %rules-dir%/dangerous.content.scanning.rules
> 
> That's correct in the way I did it yes?
> 
> Should I be adding more rules?
> 
> Michael.
> 
> 

You will probably need to also setup rulesets for:

Spam Checks =
Filename Rules =
Filetype Rules =

The File* Rules need a level of indirection in the rulesets, see:

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:ruleset
s:overloading&s=Filename+Rules 

Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com

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