Feature request: logical AND in rulesets

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jul 8 12:21:18 IST 2008



Gareth wrote:
> My setup:
> I have MailScanner running on a machine and fetchmail pulls mail down
> from a pop3 server and delivers it to postfix and then MailScanner picks
> it up and processes it.
> I have fetchmail deliver the mail to the servers real IP address and not
> the loopback address.
>
> So I can create a ruleset to bypass scannig for mail from 127.0.0.1 and
> this enables me to release mesages from quarantine and stops logwatch
> reports from being detected as spam or viruses. The problem however is
> that if people use webmail it bypasses all checks since webmail calls
> sendmail directly and cannot be configured to send to the real IP
> address.
>
> What would be perfect would be if I could do something like :-
> From:    127.0.0.1 AND root at myserver.mydomain.com    no
>   
You just missed a "From" after the "AND". But otherwise you got it right.

Jules

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