Chaining multiple .rules files?

[Eric Sauvageau]

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Hi Julian,

Sadly that won't do - I have no control over the content of the file
generated by the appliance.  It generates a standard ruleset-filled
file :(

With better Perl skills I guess I could do it through a custom
function, but my Perl skills are shaky at best.  I'll have to forget
about using the web appliance-generated file then, and only use the
manually generated .rules file.

Toss a new "include" rules keyword on the top of your TODO for
MailScanner 5.00 :)

--- 
Eric


On 5/11/05, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Yes, you can do this, but not quite the way you are planning to do it.
> 
> The "address pattern" in a rule can be a filename. In that file, you put
> all the real address patterns you want to use in that rule. These can in
> fact contain further file names, allowing these "lists of address
> patterns" to be nested.
> 
> So set
> Virus Scanning = %rules-dir%/virus.scanning.rules
> 
> And then in virus.scanning.rules put
> From: /etc/MailScanner/addresses/manual.addresses yes
> From: /etc/MailScanner/addresses/auto.addresses yes
> FromOrTo: default no
> 
> Obviously you will have to create the /etc/MailScanner/addresses
> directory. As a quick example, the auto.addresses file could contain a
> list of things like
> 
> *@paid.domain
> another.domain
> 127.0.0.1
> scanme@*
> 
> Hope that helps get you going.
> 
> Eric Sauvageau wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm setting up a server that uses a web appliance which generates its
> >own .rules files for virus scanning.  However, I also need to manually
> >maintain a second list of rulesets independently of the web appliance.
> >
> >Since the file gets overwritten by the web appliance, I wanted to do
> >something like this:
> >
> >1) In MailScanner.conf, point "Virus Scanning" to the "manual.rules" file.
> >
> >2) Create two files in the rules dir: "manual.rules" (which I manually
> >maintain) and "auto.rules" (the file that is auto-generated by the web
> >appliance)
> >
> >3) On incoming mail have Mailscanner process "manual.rule", then
> >"auto.rule" (if there wasn't a match in the first rulesets) to
> >determine if Virus Scanning should be enabled for a given domain.
> >
> >
> >Is there any way to accomplish something like that?

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