scanning rules

[dnsadmin 1bigthink.com]

At 07:29 AM 11/15/2007, you wrote:

>On 15/11/2007, eclipsem at optusnet.com.au <eclipsem at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > > 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
> >
>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
>--
>-- Glenn

Wow! That Julian is patient with all of us and this software 
distribution is a tribute!

That all of you are well behaved (for the most part) and patient with 
one another is another tribute.

Think I'll stay and continue lurking..

Cheers all,
(Another) Glenn