scanning rules

Thu Nov 15 12:18:54 GMT 2007

Take it easy, we all got day jobs including Julian!

Personally I've always found support here very friendly and informatative. This is prob the main reason I chose mailscanner over 3 years ago as  replacement for the commercial pile of rubbish with PAID support that was terrible.

Sure I get things wrong myself and get corrected but it's still in a
friendly manner.

Sometimes there's bug in the s/w and we work "together" to get a solution. Sometimes there's a config/knowledge issue and again WORKING TOGETHER we get a solution.

Anyway back to the issue in hand....

For your problem it depends where abouts you are 'whitelisting' as to what point it get to before it sees the 'whitelist'.

If you want the big 'on/off' setting it's "scan messages" in MailScanner.conf. There's also settings about whether or not run the spam checks, whether spamassassin whitelists and a whole range of other places you can whitelist depending on what then actual requirement is.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of eclipsem at optusnet.com.au
> Sent: 15 November 2007 11:40
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Re: scanning rules
>
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> > Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
> >
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> > eclipsem at optusnet.com.au wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
> > >>
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> > >> eclipsem at optusnet.com.au wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Nov 15 08:44:37 exorcist sendmail[3538]: lAEMiaYp003538:
> > >> from=<X at optusnet.com.au>, size=443, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> > >> msgid=<4.64.0711150843470.22685 at blacksabeth>, proto=ESMTP,
> > daemon=MTA,
> > >> relay=[10.0.1.19] [10.0.1.19]
> > >>> Nov 15 08:44:38 exorcist MailScanner[3524]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> > >> messages, 892 bytes
> > >>> Nov 15 08:44:39 exorcist MailScanner[3524]: Spam Checks: Starting
> > >>> Nov 15 08:44:39 exorcist sendmail[3544]: lAEMiaYp003538:
> > >> to=X at optusnet.com.au, ctladdr=<X at optusnet.com.au> (1009/100),
> > >> delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=120443,
> > >> relay=[10.0.1.19] [10.0.1.19], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (lAEMicrY022692
> > >> Message accepted for delivery)
> > >>> Nov 15 08:44:39 exorcist MailScanner[3524]: Unscanned: Delivered 1
> > >> messages
> > >>> Nov 15 08:44:39 exorcist MailScanner[3524]: Virus and Content
> > >> Scanning: Starting
> > >>
> > >> It explicitly tells you it did NOT scan. (See the Unscanned: line)
> > >>
> > >
> > > Then what is the point of all the starting spam checks and starting
> > virus scanning log entries,
> > > thats fine here on local messages, but does not answer the main issue
> > we have on our script generated messages where it does in fact add the
> > headers to the email and clearly ignores the whitelists
> > >
> > > Are you the programmer of mailscanner? if not how about you leave this
> > for him or her to answer
> > >
> > > I have until COB today, or I have been told to reinstall MIMEDefang
> > before I go home, guess it's time to start installing it now so I can
> > enact it at 430
> >
> > I suggest you pay Jules for commercial support if it is that important
> > to you.
>
> ROFLMFAO, pay the author to fix his code? sounds like you work at
> microsoft.
>
> >
> > If you do not value peer advise then why bother with a mailinglist to
> > begin with?
> >
>
> because this is the only way to log a bug report that gets a repsonse
>
>
> > Hugo.
> >
> >
> > - --
> > hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org               http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/
> > PGP/GPG? Use: http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/0x58F19981.asc
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> > 	A: Yes.
> > 	>Q: Are you sure?
> > 	>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
> > 	>>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
> >
> > Bored? Click on http://spamornot.org/ and rate those images.
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