Maximum addresses in To:

[Glenn Steen]

On 3 June 2010 23:48, Robert Lopez <rlopezcnm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Peter Ong
> <peter.ong at hypermediasystems.com> wrote:
>> There's a config parameter in mailscanner.conf that says something like this.
>>
>> p
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>>> From: "Robert Lopez" <rlopezcnm at gmail.com>
>>> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2010 10:04:17 AM
>>> Subject: Maximum addresses in To:
>>>
>>> From some place I think I read MailScanner limits white-listed email
>>> to 20 recipients and beyond 20 it will start scanning despite
>>> white-list.
>>> I think I read this in the book.
>>>
>>> ASIDE: Julian, Please expand the index in the next addition. A
>>> permuted index would be fantastic. :-)
>>>
>>> It that is correct I must know does this apply if email from a sender
>>> is to bypass MailScanner scanning according to it's entry in a
>>> scan.messages.rules (Scan Messages = %rules-dir%/scan.messages.rules)
>>> file.
>>>
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>>> Robert Lopez
>>> Unix Systems Administrator
>>> Central New Mexico Community College (CNM)
>>> 525 Buena Vista SE
>>> Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106
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>
> Yes Peter, there is and I am using it (thanks to advice from Julian Fields).
>
> This college has contracted with an emergency communications service
> which will use many forms of communication to send out emergency
> messages.
> One of the methods is email and they will send email to every email
> address a person has given them.
> That company will "blast" email to get them delivered as fast as possible.
> For many reasons, the college is white-listing them to postfix.
> Our config of postfix passes everything on to MailScanner.
> I have set up rules in the scan.messages.rules file which will match
> patterns in email coming from the service.
> The match will tell MailScanner, via the parameter "Scan Messages",
> not to scan the email from them.
>
> Martin and Glenn now have informed me I should be looking to see how
> to tell postfix to do "recipient splitting".
>
Have a look at http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:mta:postfix:how_to:split_mails_per_recipient
... It's been a while since I typed that lot up, so there is likely
room for improvement:-). But it really does work;-).

Cheers
-- 
-- Glenn
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