Stop Virus Scanning

[Rob Kettle]

Glenn Steen wrote:
> 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
>   

Much appreciated to all.

That seems to give what I wanted.

Thanks
Rob