disable virus scanning for one user

[Rob Shepherd]

Julian Field wrote:
> What bit don't you understand about the notes? I would like to make them 
> easy to understand.
> 
> Jules
> 

Thanks Jules, for your motivation.... :)

Here's the text, taken from stable 
http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/tar/MailScanner-install-4.61.7-2.tar.gz

> # Virus Scanning and Vulnerability Testing
> # ----------------------------------------
> #
> 
> # Do you want to scan email for viruses?
> # A few people don't have a virus scanner licence and so want to disable
> # all the virus scanning.
> # If you use a ruleset for this setting, then the mail will be scanned if
> # *any* of the rules match (except the default). That way unscanned mail
> # never reaches a user who is having their mail virus-scanned.
> #
> # If you want to be able to switch scanning on/off for different users or
> # different domains, set this to the filename of a ruleset.
> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> Virus Scanning = yes

looking at....

"mail will be scanned if *any* of the rules match (except the default)"

I read this as....

given file syntax....

direction pattern result

result will always be "yes" if direction and pattern positively match.

thus returning...

Virus Scanning = "yes" to MailScanner.conf

This has proved not to be the case as I have sucessfully produced a file 
with explicit Virus Scanning = "no" substitutions from rules with the 
default => yes.

I didn't take the time to work out what the subsequent statement means 
regarding unscanned mail etc...

Cheers

Rob








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