Don't check mail from localhost
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed Mar 14 18:12:17 CET 2007
Arthur Sherman spake the following on 3/13/2007 5:10 PM:
>>> 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.
>>
You can enhance this by adding an "and" clause.
Example ;
From: 127.0.0.1 and from root at localhost no
FromOrTo: default yes
Just use the root address mail is sent from.
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