Bypassing Bad Content filter for one user: foundscript

[Julian Field]

On 25 Oct 2005, at 03:18, J.F. Charland wrote:

> On 10/24/05, Dennis Willson <taz at taz-mania.com> wrote:
>
>> I believe you want to make a ruleset for:
>> Dangerous Content Scanning =
>>
>> Or maybe multiple rulesets in the section labeled:
>> #
>> # Removing/Logging dangerous or potentially offensive content
>> # -----------------------------------------------------------
>> #
>>
>> I have gotten to the point where I tell the users it's part of the  
>> anti-virus and can't be controlled per user or per domain (even
>> though it can) just because even the users that say "I know enough  
>> to know what not to do with bad content" really don't (In fact
>> these are the most dangerous users that will mess themselves up  
>> and I will get the support call for). They grumble a bit, but since
>> it's part of the anti-virus they'll live with it.
>>
>> You can also create whitelists for specific senders and/or  
>> receivers and with MailWatch they (the users) can do that themselves.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> J.F. Charland wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> How does one bypass the bad content filters for a particular  
>>> sender or
>>> recipient for warnings such as "foundscript"?  I can't seem to find
>>> out where I can create a ruleset for this in MailScanner.conf.
>>>
>>> Can someone point me to a resource or briefly describe the  
>>> procedure?
>>> I promise don't need hand-holding, just a pointer.  :)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> JF
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> Puzzled, I wanted to see if there was such actually such a paramater
> as "Dangerous Content Scanning =" by doing a   man MailScanner.conf
>
> There isn't.  :-)  But I DID find the "Allow Script Tags" parameter so
> I would try something like:
>    Allow Script Tags = %rules-dir%/allow.script.tags
>
>  I would put the following in the rules file:
>
>    FromOrTo:       default         no
>    To:             scripts.galore at mailbox-at-risk.com      yes
>
Don't trust the man page for that, it's a bit behind. Look in the  
MailScanner.conf and you will find it if it is implemented in your  
version.

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