Whitelist based on recipient

Wed Dec 31 21:33:49 GMT 2008

CafePress.

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From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:10:34 
To: MailScanner discussion<mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject: Re: Whitelist based on recipient

Please tell me you ordered it through the MailScanner website (i.e.
through CafePress or Lulu). Anything else will take ages, cost you more,
and cause me a lot of grief.

Thanks! :-)
Jules.

On 31/12/08 19:11, rjette at vzw.blackberry.net wrote:
> I have the book on order. Thanks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Glenn Steen"<glenn.steen at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:55:11
> To: MailScanner discussion<mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: Whitelist based on recipient
>
>
> 2008/12/31<rjette at vzw.blackberry.net>:
>
>> Thanks for the reply. I know that it is not a good idea but I be leave it is my only option.
>>
>> I am migrating from an old mail system to Postfix. We have some program's that are sales reps use that were developed in house. These programs are used by companies across the country and cannot be changed. They use are MTA to send mail from there addresses to ours. There are hundreds of installations.
>>
>> I will look into using a ruleset on the scan message setting.
>>
>> Back to the archives. I'm not familiar with MS rulesets. Does anyone have any links on the subject?
>>
>>
> There's a few good things in:
> - The wiki (look under documentation.....)
> - The example files in the rules directory (perhaps /etc/MailScanner/rules ...)
> - The Book (yes, it is actually worth buying... Not only to support Jules;-)
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Ray
>>
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>>
>>
> ...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Glenn Steen"<glenn.steen at gmail.com>
>>
>> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:03:01
>> To: MailScanner discussion<mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: Re: Whitelist based on recipient
>>
>>
>> 2008/12/30 Guy Story KC5GOI<kc5goi at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Ray, I am not 100% sure how to get Postfix to do what you want but on
>>> MailScanner I believe you need to add an entry to your spam whitelist rule
>>> that reads:
>>>
>>> FromTo:<tab>email at address.com<tab>yes
>>>
>>> You should be able to put your 9 addresses in there and they will be skipped
>>> for scanning at least for spam content.  I do not recommend doing a wildcard
>>> then your domain but you could do that.  Make sure the entries are before
>>> the default action.
>>>
>>>
>> There's at least two reasons why this is a bad idea:
>> 1. It will not do what Raymond is after,it'll just skip some of all
>> the checks, not all of them. to achieve the effect sought after,
>> Raymond will have to implement a ruleset on the Scan Message setting
>> instead. Pretty much like for the spam whitelist, but ... est kept
>> separate.
>> 2. Recipient/sender (envelope) addresses are extremely simpleto forge,
>> and most spam do so on a regular basis... So bypassing all checks will
>> (eventually) fill those mailboxes with more or less dangerous cr*p,
>> Perhaps not the brightest of ideas. If one is to do this, one better
>> have some fairly good protection in place on the exchange host.
>>
>> The risks should not be taken lightly... the ramifications may affect
>> all recipients.... and then some:/.
>>
>>
>>> On Postfix, good luck seems like I have seen a similar request but darned if
>>> I remember where.
>>>
>>>
>> As specified, it simply cannot be done. The smtpd_helo_required "take
>> effect" way before you have any sender/recipient information to act
>> upon. The other one could perhaps be avoided by way of an access map,
>> but ... to what avail?
>> If it were me, I'd try convince the recipients of the ... less than
>> briliant... path this is.
>> Do they have any valid reasons for wanting to be "skipped"?
>>
>>
>>> Guy
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Raymond Jette<rjette at mestek.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good afternoon,
>>>>
>>>> I am running Postfix, Mailscanner, and Spamassassin on my MTA. I have 9
>>>> mailboxes on an Exchange server that I want to receive all mail. I would
>>>> like all mail sent to these addresses to bypass all checks at the MTA, MS,
>>>> and SA.  At the MTA I am using
>>>> reject_non_fqdn_hostname
>>>> smtpd_help_required = yes
>>>>
>>>> I also need to skip these checks if possible.
>>>>
>>>> I have searched the archives and the web but i'm still not sure where to
>>>> start.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the help,
>>>> Ray
>>>>
>> Cheers
>> --
>> -- Glenn
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