Whitelist rules

[Colin Jack]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of mikea
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:53 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Whitelist rules
> 
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:44:47PM +0100, Colin Jack wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> > > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of 
> > > Joost Waversveld
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:07 PM
> > > To: MailScanner discussion
> > > Subject: Re: Whitelist rules
> > > 
> > > No, you're wrong... ;-) You can use wildcards just the 
> way you said.
> > > 
> > > Keep in mind that the mail will get scanned, but will be 
> delivered 
> > > as normal, regardless of the score the message get.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Joost Waversveld
> > > 
> > > Colin Jack wrote:
> > > > Please could someone give me a pointer
> > > > 
> > > > I want to allow all mail for particular domain through
> > > without being
> > > > scanned.
> > > > Am I right in saying that I cannot use wildcards in the 
> > > > spam.whitelist.rules like
> > > > 
> > > > FromOrTo:  *@domain.com  yes
> > > > 
> > > > If so, how do I do it?
> > > > 
> > > > Many thanks
> > > > 
> > > > Colin
> 
> > Thanks ... well that makes life easier :)
> > 
> > They are particularly keen that their mail shouldn't be 
> {disarmed} ...
> > will this work this way?
> 
> That's what I see here: whitelisted mail gets scanned, but 
> there are no changes made to the mail, possibly excepting an 
> additional header.
> 
> --
> Mike Andrews, W5EGO
> mikea at mikea.ath.cx
> Tired old sysadmin
> --

Okay ... that's cool ... except

I did that last night and then this morning I had clients complaining
that the server was very slow and a quick 'ps aux' showed hundreds of
procmail processes for this particular domain just sitting there!!

Commented out the change and restarted MailScanner and all okay again?
Any ideas?

Thanks

Colin