Whitelist rules

[Colin Jack]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Martin Hepworth
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 10:44 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Whitelist rules
> 
> 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
> 

Okay thanks ... just seemed odd that it was only this domain which
seemed to be having problems.

Probably a coincidence ... I will check it out.

Regards

Colin