Allow a trusted sender to send any type of file

[Glenn Steen]

It's an OK approach... apart from the security issue of using something
easily spoofable to bypass scanning altogether. If/when I need stuff like
this, I always use their IP adress (much harder to spoof;-).

Cheers
-- 
-- Glenn


On 30 August 2013 20:23, Robert Lopez <rlopezcnm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:35 PM, J Gao <jgao at veecall.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have a trusted developer send us binary files from time to time.
> > MailScanner always blocked these file so as administrator I have to
> > retrieve those files manually.
> >
> > How can I allow the email with any type of attachment from this
> > developer to deliver to the recipient?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Gao
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> As Alex stated.
>
> Another way is put them in a file.
>
> For example...
>
> Make certain you have a "rules" directory in your MailScanner
> directory, probably already have it.
>
> In MailScanner.conf:Scan Messages = %rules-dir%/scan.messages.rules
>
>
> You may already have the file in your rules dir (version depending).
> If not create it and put something like this into it to help you get
> started:
>
> # The purpose of this file is to establish a rule set
> # to be used to tell MailScanner if an email should be
> # scanned or not.
> #
> # The question is:
> #  "Should an email having this pattern be scanned?"
> #
> # An answer of yes causes it to be scanned.
> # An answer of no  causes it to by pass all scanning.
> #
> # The line format is "ruleset pattern       answer"
> #
> # A sample ruleset would look like this:
> #   From:     ignore.domain.com         no
> #   From:     trusted.email.address     no
> #   FromOrTo: default                       yes
>
>
> From: yourtrustedemailaddress.their.domain            no
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