Don't check mail from localhost

[Jason Ede]

However, don't do this if you have fetchmail enabled for any pop pickups as that will also bypass scanning.

Jason



From: Arthur Sherman
Sent: Wed 14/03/2007 00:10
To: 'MailScanner discussion'
Subject: RE: Don't check mail from localhost


> > Hi do I set MailScanner not to scan mail from localhost? I 
> stopped getting
> > mail from root
> >   
> That root guy only sends spam anyways. ;-)
> 
> Seriously, this is a two-step process.
> 
> 1) Create a file called "content.scanning.rules" or similar 
> and put it 
> in your /etc/MailScanner/rules/ dir. Contents should be:
> 
> From:           127.0.0.1      no
> FromOrTo:       default        yes
> 
> 2) Make a change to your MailScanner.conf file. Find the line that 
> reads: Dangerous Content Scanning = yes and change it to:
> Dangerous Content Scanning = %rules-dir%/content.scanning.rules
> 
> 3) save, and restart MailScanner.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris


Thanks, Chris!


Best,

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