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Peter Peters P.G.M.Peters at utwente.nl
Mon Jan 16 08:55:02 GMT 2006


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Steve Freegard wrote on 14-1-2006 16:25:

>>Still why are some e-mail being scanned when they are told not to do so?
> 
> 
>>From the information you've provided so far - I haven't got a clue (see
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html).
> 
> You need to do some basic troubleshooting - for instance, set up the
> 'Archive Mail' option for the domain that shouldn't be scanned so that
> you can refer to the original message to find out what might have caused
> it be scanned.
> 
> The message could be 'To' multiple recipients with conflicting settings
> (in which case the default setting in the ruleset is used) - it could be
> the messages are being sent to an alias instead of what you have in your
> ruleset which isn't causing the rules to match or a whole load of other
> things.
> 
> If you want help with something then actually *show* the problem (I
> don't mean by posting pages of log data which nobody will be bothered to
> sift through), I mean show the relevant lines from the ruleset and the
> default rule and which configuration value you have attached the ruleset
> to and show the actual message headers of two example messages that
> illustrate your point.

Do you mean MS depends on the information in the headers? I hope not. I
thought MS uses the envelop information and that information is logged
(at least with sendmail). If sendmail logs a message is coming in for
a at b.nl I presume that address is used by MS to chech the rules.

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Peter Peters, senior beheerder (Security)
Dienst Informatietechnologie, Bibliotheek en Educatie (ITBE)
Universiteit Twente,  Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
telefoon: 053 - 489 2301, fax: 053 - 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/itbe
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