Whitelisting doesn't bypass virus scan

Zaeem Arshad zaeem.arshad at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 04:53:40 IST 2010


Silly me. I should have known that. Thanks Jules and thanks for this
wonderful piece of software that makes our lives easy everyday.

Best Wishes,

Zaeem

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Jules Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Yes, just put a ruleset on the "Virus Scanning" configuration setting in
> MailScanner.conf.
> You can build a ruleset for almost any setting in MailScanner.conf. The
> "spam.whitelist.rules" ruleset is just provided as an example of how to use
> the facility.
> Read all the files in /etc/MailScanner/rules and you will see how to use it.
> There is also plenty of documentation on this subject on the website and the
> wiki, and also in the book.
>
> On 04/08/2010 18:48, Zaeem Arshad wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I have tried whitelisting an email address which MailScanner correctly
>> picks up and bypasses SA scanning but still hands it over to Clam. I'd
>> like to bypass virus scan altogether for certain addresses. Is that
>> possible?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Zaeem
>>
>
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