Whitelist rules

[Colin Jack]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Glenn Steen
> Sent: 14 October 2006 11:25
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Whitelist rules
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> -- Glenn

Great thanks Glenn - I will check that out. That would make sense.

Regards

Colin