howto stop 1 users outgong mail from being scanned & headers "SOLVED"

Dan Carl danc at BLUESTARSHOWS.COM
Wed Jul 13 21:46:33 IST 2005


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Works great, thanks for your help Alex.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Neuman van der Hans" <alex at nkpanama.com>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: howto stop 1 users outgong mail from being scanned & headers


> Dan Carl wrote:
>
> >>>Dan Carl wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I have a user named "mailer" that I use to send  bulk emails.
> >>>>I don't want Mailscanner to scan or change headers on any of its
> >>>>outgoing
> >>>>mail.
> >>>>I made a virus.scanning.rules listed below.
> >>>>From:   mailer at mydomain.com        no
> >>>>FromOrTo:    default                 yes
> >>>>
> >>>>and a signing rule as follows
> >>>>From:   mailer at mydomain.com        no
> >>>>FromOrTo:    default                 yes
> >>>>
> >>>>When I send emails they are still sent via Mailscanner
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>And besides, you want messages not to be "touched" by MailScanner, so
> >>why not set an additional MTA process on a different port to take care
> >>of this?
> >>
> >>
> >This sounds like the best solution.
> >Could you elaborate on how to do this.
> >Tried google and did some experimenting without success.
> >example:
> >DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
> >DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=25025,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA-2')dnl
> >
> >MTA is sendmail.
> >
> >
> >
> >>In any case, I hope this "bulk email" you talk about is not spam. I've
> >>started to notice local spammers and local ISP-friendly spammers are
> >>starting to use MailScanner, "amavisd", SpamAssassin's milter, and other
> >>antispam tools. Ironic.
> >>
> >>
> >I email coupons to past attendees, we happen to have 1000's of them.
> >
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> Remember how you "turn off sendmail" when you "turn on MailScanner" so
> that mailscanner "calls" sendmail?
>
> Well, you'd turn on sendmail by itself, apart from MailScanner - but
> with a twist. You can go with one of two options:
>
> 1. Add "-ODaemonPortOptions=Port=25025,Addr=127.0.0.1,Name=MTA-2" to the
> sendmail program called by /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail or,
> 2. Create a new sendmail.mc called sendmail.local.mc, for example, add
> "DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=25025,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA-2')dnl" to it.
> Compile it using m4 < /etc/mail/sendmail.local.mc >
> /etc/mail/sendmail.local.cf, and add -C /etc/mail/sendmail.local.cf to
> whatever parameters sendmail starts with in /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail.
>
> This also fixes the "my messages come out garbled when sent from apache"
> problem nobody seems to have figured out yet.
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