Whitelist rules

[Glenn Steen]

On 13/10/06, Colin Jack <colin at mainline.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> > -----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
Sounds like your procmail rules are depending on information added by
MailScanenr.... Which doesn't get added when whitelisting like this.

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