Mail unscanned when sent to multiple users

[Martin Hepworth]

Mark

See marcels email on this - can't see I saw anything in the change logs
about this though....

Best for the MTA to do it currenly, unless Julian has any bright ideas
when he gets back from holidays in a couple of weeks...

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Mark Waterhouse - Mailing Lists wrote:
> Wow...surely the recipient lines could get split using some perl code and
> then the tests performed on that...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Hepworth" <martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Mail unscanned when sent to multiple users
>
>
>> Mark
>>
>> MS only checks the initial 'to' user, there's no way for it to resolve
>> multiple 'to','cc','bcc' recipients and somehow figure out what it
>> should do (ie for one user the result might need to be 'yes' and for
>> another it might be 'no', so what should it do?).
>>
>> A way around this (if you're using sendmail or Exim) is to split the
>> message into individual messages for the individual recipients then the
>> rules are nice and simple. There's an exmaple of to setup sendmail and
>> exim to do this in the  Quarantine  report MS addition at
>> http://www.fsl.com/support/QuarantineReport.tar.gz
>>
>> From what I understand you can't do this with Postfix, but if anyone's
>> figured it out please let the list know so Steve Swaney can update the
>> Quarantine Report instructions..
>>
>> --
>> Martin Hepworth
>> Snr Systems Administrator
>> Solid State Logic
>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>
>>
>> Mark Waterhouse - Mailing Lists wrote:
>>
>>> I have MailScanner setup to scan multiple domains on one box and then
>>> feed
>>> the resulting email to their destination server.
>>> I also have MailScanner to selectively scan messages sent to domain
>>> users.
>>>
>>> I have spam/virus checking based upon a ruleset....domain.filter.rules
>>>
>>> I have set my rules up as
>>>
>>> FromOrTo:    *@mydomain1.com    no
>>> FromOrTo:    *@mydomain2.com    yes
>>> FromOrTo:    user at mydomain3.com    no
>>> FromOrTo:    default    yes
>>>
>>> If a mail is sent to user at mydomain3.com, it isnt scanned.....desired
>>> behaviour
>>> If a mail is sent to user2 at mydomain3.com, it is scanned....also desired
>>> behaviour (because of the default line)
>>>
>>> However, if a message is sent to user at mydomain3.com AND
>>> user2 at mydomain3.com,
>>> neither message is scanned.
>>>
>>> If I alter the rule to include a YES statement for user2 at mydomain3.com,
>>> it
>>> works as desired.
>>>
>>> I know the default rule is working as messages sent only to
>>> user2 at domain3.com are scanned.
>>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone offer a reason for this and has anyone else seen this
>>> behaviour.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Mark Waterhouse
>>> DFK Systems Limited
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