File Type Checking - Excepting users to the rules

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Oct 10 09:25:46 IST 2006


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This is all documented on the wiki and in the book. Read this:
http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:rulesets:overloading

Jon Bates wrote:
>  
> I've got filtering in place to quarantine emails with attachments of 
> specific types (eg. videos). I need a list of users to be allowed as 
> exceptions to these rules.
> _______________________________
>  
> I've tried adding this to the top of the filename.rules.conf:
>  
> "FromOrTo:    user at domain.com <mailto:user at domain.com>     allow"  
>  
> ...but i'm getting syntax errors when starting MailScanner.
>  
> _______________________________
>  
> I've also tried creating a ruleset for the users under "Dangerous 
> Content Scanning", and this *does* work, but this is less than 
> desirable as it obviously opens up a security hole for the exception 
> users!
>  
>  
> Can anyone give me some guidance on how I can do this?
>  
> Thanks very much for your time.
>  
> - Jon

Jules

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