Only scan mail from external networks through mailscanner

[Julian Field]

Do this with a ruleset on "Scan Messages" to ignore the IP addresses 
from your data centre. Looking for things in Received: headers is dodgy 
as I can force a mail to your system to not be scanned by merely including
Received: by mailscanner
anywhere in the headers.
And you've just told all the spammers that's how to avoid your MailScanner.

Norbert Schmidt wrote:
> _Hi everybody,
>
> our current setup is using a gateway mailserver that is receiving
> external mail and mail from our internal networks (like mail from the
> datacenter) and routes them to our mailscanner servers.
> As there are a lot of time critical alert mails comming from the
> datacenter  I am looking for a way to not scan them on the mailscanners
> but rather directly send them to the internal groupware servers.
> We are using a postfix setup, thus we are using the header_checks to put
> the mail into the hold queue.
> mailscanner1:~# cat /etc/postfix/header_checks
> /^Received:.by.mailscanner/     IGNORE
> /^Received:/ HOLD
>
> I've tried to add this line to the header_checks:
> /^Received:.*\.ourdomain\.com/       DUNNO
>
> Which worked somehow to good, as all mail went around the mailscanner
> (our gateway servers are using: mail1.ourdomain.com and mail2.ourdomain.com)
>
> I was thinking of a line like:  If IP in header is not one of mine then HOLD
>
> Do you have any idea on how this could be aquired or do you have a
> better way to solve this??
>
> Regards
>
> Norbert
> _
>
>   

Jules

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