Ruleset Woe

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Tue Oct 16 10:54:22 IST 2007


Paul

The default line needs to go last.

MS works through the rulesets till it find a hit then stops.

If it finds a default line first if will never evaluate any rule after that.

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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 Paul Houselander
> Sent: 16 October 2007 10:50
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Ruleset Woe
>
> Hi
>
> I thought I had a decent handle on how rulesets worked but now im not so
> sure.
>
> I have a script that runs on a server that sends a daily csv file
> containing
> info about all the mail thats been blocked for a particluar domain.
>
> Since I started using the sane security clam definitions this mail keeps
> getting flagged as a virus.
>
> Ive tried to use rulesets to exclude this particluar email from being
> virus
> checked
>
> I have these rulesets set up
>
> Scan Messages = %rules-dir%/scan.messages.rules
> Virus Scanning = %rules-dir%/virus.scanning.rules
>
> The Email is sent from the local machine (127.0.0.1) and From:
> admin at domain.com To: paul at differentdomain.com
>
> Ive tried the following in scan.messages.rules
>
> FromOrTo:	default	no
> From:	admin at domain.com	no
> FromOrTo:	*@differentdomain.com	yes
>
> But the message gets scanned (I want all other email scanned for the
> domain)
>
> I also tried
>
> FromOrTo:	default	no
> From:	127.0.0.1	no
> From:	admin at domain.com	no
> FromOrTo:	*@differentdomain.com	yes
>
> and the message still got scanned.
>
> I then tried in virus.scanning.rules
>
> FromOrTo:	default	no
> From:	127.0.0.1	AND	To:	*@differentdomain.com	no
> From:	admin at domain.com	AND	To:	*@differentdomain.com	no
> FromOrTo:	*@differentdomain.com	yes
>
> and still the message got scanned (I am doing MailScanner reload after
> each
> edit)
>
> Any ideals on what im doing wrong.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
>
>
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