Stop Virus Scanning

[Glenn Steen]

2008/6/8 Stephen Swaney <steve at fsl.com>:
> Rob Kettle wrote:
>>
>> Glenn Steen wrote:
>>>
>>> 2008/6/8 Rob Kettle <rob at kettle.org.uk>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I want to be able to ignore certain users and not do any virus scanning
>>>> for
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> I have set Mailscanner to show  Virus Scanning =
>>>> /etc/MailScanner/rules/scan.messages.rules
>>>>
>>>> and then in that file put:
>>>> From:        someuser at thedomain.org.uk    no
>>>> FromOrTo:    default        yes
>>>>
>>>> It still scans for virus according the the logfile.
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing the obvious ? If so apoogies up front.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did your reload/restart MailScanner after the edit?
>>>
>>> BTW, why would you do this? Avoiding all scanning, or spam
>>> sanning...that I might understand, but only AV?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did reload Mailscanner.
>>
>> I was aksing about stopping virus scanning at this stage but the real goal
>> is to bypass all scanning for certain users as their mail needs to be
>> scanned/quarantined etc. on a server that this server hands the mail over
>> to.
>>
>> So in reality I actually want to bypass all scanning for certain from or
>> to addresses and just have Mailscanner take the mail in and pass it off to
>> another server.
>>
>> thanks
>> Rob
>>
> Simple. In Mailscanner.conf:
>
> Scan Messages = %rules-dir%/scan.messages.rules
>
> # can skip all scanning of mail destined for some of your users/customers
> # and still scan all the rest.
> # A sample ruleset would look like this:
> #   To:       bad.customer.com  no
> #   From:     ignore.domain.com no
> #   FromOrTo: default           yes
> # That will scan all mail except mail to bad.customer.com and mail from
> # ignore.domain.com. To set this up, put the 3 lines above into a file
> # called /etc/MailScanner/rules/scan.messages.rules and set the next line to
> # Scan Messages = %rules-dir%/scan.messages.rules
> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset (as illustrated above).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Swaney
> steve at fsl.com
> www.fsl.com
>
CC
If you do as Steve suggest, try use something more than just the
recipient address, since that is easily spoofed. Then again, if you
trust the "destination server" to do a good job... it wouldn't matter
much that some things would be spoofed:-)

Cheers
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