Bypass spam scan based on header

[Julian Field]

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A simple Custom Function would do it, but do be sure to remember that 
any header you can add can be easily added by the spammers as well! 
Don't trust _anything_ in the headers :-(

Jim Flowers wrote:
> I pre-process email with another program before forwarding messages to
> MailScanner.  This program adds a header on the fly when a message has been
> whitelisted.
> 
> I want to configure MailScanner to bypass spam-scanning messages that contain
> this header to save the overhead.  Virus-scanning is still required.  Is there
> a way to do this other than using a Custom Function or by using a sendmail hack?
> 
> If not, I'll probably hack the pre-processor to add/delete the whitelisted
> addresses into the MySQL database for SQLBlackWhiteList.pm to handle.
> 
> But I thought: if anyone has already solved this problem, I should ask.  
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> --
> Jim Flowers <jflowers at ezo.net>
> 
> 

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