configure ms to exclude domain/ip

[Jeff A. Earickson]

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I would also suggest adding loopback to this rule list:

From:   127.0.0.1       no

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:00:19 +0000
> From: Martin Hepworth <martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM>
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> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: configure ms to exclude domain/ip
> 
> Andy
>
> Here's what I do. On outbound email I only scan for viruses and not spam 
> (waste of time and might generate false positives).
>
> I set the following options in MailScanner.conf
>
> Spam Checks = %rules-dir%/spam.rules
>
> The file spam.rules then contains.
>
> From:        192.168.                no
> FromOrTo:    default                 yes
>
> where 192.168.0.0/16 is my local subnet
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Dörfler Andreas wrote:
>> hi there,
>> 
>> after reading the ms-config file i miss one feature
>> (or im too stupid to find it, well, not the first time :))
>> 
>> i wanna exclude one domain or better, one special ip
>> from getting scanned.
>> background: the mails from our internal mailserver
>> (exchange.. jea i hate it too ... ;)) should not be
>> scanned, because the the ms-server is here only
>> relay host but our users doesnt send spam (i hope so).
>> 
>> is there a way to configure it right now ?
>> ip would mutch better then the domainname (domain-faker).
>> mx-record test wont work here because the exchange is
>> in a private ip subnet.
>> 
>> greetings
>> andy
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