Allow Blackberry redirector messages

[Glenn Steen]

2008/12/28 Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
>
>
> On 28/12/08 16:08, Greg J. McGreevy wrote:
>>
>> Sorry to seem ignorant or be a pest just so I am clear on what I need to
>> do. As I would like to leave the current rule in place as it is a good
>> practice. here are the steps I will take.
>>
>> 1) create new file called content.scanning.rules and place in the path
>> /etc/Mailscanner/rules folder
>>
>> 2) file should read as below:
>>
>> File: content.scanning.rules
>>
>
> That line shouldn't be in the file, just the file should be whatever name
> you put in for it in MailScanner.conf.
>>
>> FromOrTo: default yes
>>
>
> Correct. Despite what other people may say, it doesn't actually matter where
> in the file this line appears. But it makes more logical sense to put it at
> the end, as all the other lines are processed in the order first to last.
>>
>> From: *.*blackberry*.net no
>>
>
> No,
>    From: *@blackberry.net no
> and you might want to add this line as well
>    From: *@*.blackberry.net no
> but you probably don't need that one, unless you have seen mail from
> subdomains of blackberry.net.

IIRC (always a gamble between Xmas and New Years Eve....:-) this is
usually the case... That they send from a "semi-local" subdomain, that
is.
I really would like to twist the thumbs on the one who put that all
together... they have the ETP.DAT file in there as ascii armored text,
still need the actual binary.... So what was the point of the ascii
armot? Sigh.

>>
>> 3) edit Mailscanner.conf change the following line that currently states:
>>
>> Dangerous Content Scanning = yes
>>
>> to
>>
>> Dangerous Content Scanning = %rules-dir%/content.scanning.rules
>>
>
> Correct.
> Then, if MailScanner is already running, do
>    service MailScanner reload
> or, if it is not running (or if you want to be *really* sure it's picked up
> all updates and changes)
>    service MailScanner restart
> That makes MailScanner immediately take notice of the configuration change
> you have made, or else it won't pick it up for a few hours.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for you time
>>
>
> No problem.
>
> And to all you other guys here ---- you could have been a little more
> verbose, couldn't you? Bit mean not to tell him about the "default" line he
> needs in the file. Happy New Year!
>
> Jules.

Was busy eating and drinking... Sorry...:-).
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info on behalf of Julian Field
>> Sent: Sun 12/28/2008 9:17 AM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: Allow Blackberry redirector messages
>>
>>
>>
>> Just add this line to /etc/MailScanner/rules/content.scanning.rules
>>
>> FromOrTo: default yes
>>
>> Then "service MailScanner restart", or "service MailScanner reload" if
>> MailScanner is already running.
>>
>> On 28/12/08 13:46, Greg J. McGreevy wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> yes I found this before I posted:
>>> I used
>>>
>>> MailScanner.cong
>>>
>>> Dangerous Content Scanning = %rules-dir%/content.scanning.rules
>>>
>>> ___
>>> File: content.scanning.rules
>>>
>>> From: *.*blackberry*.net no
>>>
>>> I could not get this working. I found the above statement in the
>>> mailscanner.conf file (guess it is a typo in this reply) it only has a
>>> yes statement currently. I did not find the content.scanning.rules
>>> file anywhere so I asummend it had to be created. Tried all of this to
>>> no avail. Mailscanner service would not start. If I am in fact doing
>>> something wrong and someone leads me in the right direction (step by
>>> step). What are the consequences of using this statement. How I read
>>> it is don't scan anything from blackberry.net and do nothing else
>>> meaning ignore all other scanning for dangerous files. I would have
>>> figured this would be an add to the current rule not a new one.
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>> Greg
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *From:* mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info on behalf of Kai
>>> Schaetzl
>>> *Sent:* Sun 12/28/2008 6:31 AM
>>> *To:* mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>>> *Subject:* Re: Allow Blackberry redirector messages
>>>
>>> Greg J. McGreevy wrote on Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:39:27 -0500:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> can someone send some step by step instructions on how to do this
>>>>
>>>
>>> These are already on this list. Just search it.
>>>
>>> Kai
>>>
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>> Jules
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