scanning rules

[Glenn Steen]

On 15/11/2007, eclipsem at optusnet.com.au <eclipsem at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> > Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
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> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
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> > eclipsem at optusnet.com.au wrote:
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> > > 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
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> > It explicitly tells you it did NOT scan. (See the Unscanned: line)
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> 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
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> Are you the programmer of mailscanner? if not how about you leave this for him or her to answer
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> 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
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Working under pressure isn't always the best way to resolve problems:-).

As to the original problem... Did you by any chance edit the rule
file(s) under Windoze? Have you run a "MailScanner --lint"? What
you've quoted here looks OK, but... If your rules aren't working there
are more debug optiions, to verify exactly what MailScanner will do...
Try a "MailScanner --help" and you'll see;-).

Hmmm, perhaps I should look at the rest of this thread... Oh my $DEITY
! How a simple debug excercise turns vicious! Argh.
Well, I hope you'll find MIMEDefang as powerful and useful as
MailScanner... last I looked it wasn't, but then ... that was a while
back.
If you had asked nicely, I know for a fact that Jules would've helped
you out (along with a few others here... Hugo among them;-), perhaps
even if you had asked off-list.
That Jules makes very little money on MS is no secret. That he will do
consulting (that is: listen to your problem, log into your server and
solve said problem) at a reasonable fare (which it actually is) ... is
no secret either. He's both fast and good.
Ah well. Be well, all!

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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