{Spam?} Re: Changin MX machine to it's own, recommendations please...

[Rob Morin]

Right thats not the problem... i want to leave it scan locally made 
messages... but i do not want to scan messages coming in from a certain 
IP.... i have this in the rules files.... 

From:   192.186.63.158            yes

in both ..

spam.whitelist.rules
virus.scanning.rules

so that no scanning takes place from that IP ONLY all others will get 
scanned.... but what i do not know is, does it still scan and  it adds a 
negative score to the email or does it simply say, "Oh, its in my whitle 
list, i won't bother to scan it" as then the actual  scan process and SA 
process will still run , and still take  cpu away from the machine....


Rob Morin
Dido InterNet Inc.
Montreal, Canada
Http://www.dido.ca
514-990-4444



Alex Neuman wrote:
> Rob Morin escribió:
>> do not scan for spam ro virus for any email coming form this machine 
>> IP? as i need the load to go done on the older machine and do not 
>> want MS being used for anything other than email going out form web 
>> apps on the server....
> The problem is that Web Apps running on the server (like a PHP-based 
> CMS for example) will send mail that appears to come from 127.0.0.1 if 
> the webpage is running on the same server MailScanner is running, so 
> whitelisting that IP will mean that if your server is compromised it 
> will send out bad e-mails without any sort of control.
>
> Otherwise you can use "scan messages" along with a ruleset to avoid 
> scanning local messages.