Whitelist rules

[Martin Hepworth]

Colin Jack wrote:
>> -----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  
> 

Procmail?????thats way after MS has anything to do with the email..

I'd check the procmail rules...

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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