[Mimedefang] skipping mimedefang on outbound mail - Fixed

Todd Adamson tadamson at routers.com
Wed Aug 27 16:18:01 EDT 2003


Thanks to one and all who responded.  My problem was the -r flag.
Whenever I looked at the ps awx, I saw the -r flag, but I missed
that it was assoicated with the multiplexor, not with mimedefang
itself.  NEED TO LOOK CLOSER in the future.

Again, thanks everybody.

Todd Adamson
tadamson at routers.com
(402)434-5395 
> From: "Michael Sims" <michaels at crye-leike.com>
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] skipping mimedefang on outbound mail
> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:05:18 -0500
> 
> mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote:
> > I am wanting to set up MD so that if it receives an email coming
> > from an internal machine (i.e. 172.16.100.249), that it does not
> > do any filtering or scanning.  It should just continue to forward
> > the email onto the final receipiant on the Internet.  I placed the
> > following code in my mimedefang-filter configuration, and restarted
> > sendmail and MD.  But when I send a test message, it still 
> is getting
> > sent through the filters.  What am I doing wrong here?
> [snip]
> 
> Just a guess here, but are you passing the -r option to 
> mimedefang?  On my
> system I do this by adding:
> 
> MX_RELAY_CHECK=yes
> 
> to /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang but it's been forever since I 
> setup my init
> scripts and I can't remember how standard they are now.
> 
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