[Mimedefang] Skip MD for some users
Stephen Smoogen
smoogen at lanl.gov
Tue Apr 27 14:45:07 EDT 2004
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:54, Kelson Vibber wrote:
> At 11:18 AM 4/26/2004, Nathan Martinez wrote:
> >Everything works fine for me, but now a few users want to be excluded
> >from the Spam scanning that I am doing.
>
> Because of the way milter works, you cannot skip MD on a per-user
> basis. There are two approaches you can take, both inside mimedefang-filter:
>
> 1. Use filter_recipient and the ACCEPT_AND_NO_MORE_FILTERING return code -
> which has the disadvantage that you stop filtering for any other recipients
> of the same message.
>
> 2. Check the list of recipients before doing the actual spam scanning
> (right before calling SpamAssassin, for instance). This has the same
> disadvantage, but you can work around it using stream_by_recipient in
> filter_begin - which of course has its own disadvantage (resending the same
> message once per recipient).
>
blech. the vaguries of a hack. I think David posted the stream by
recipient example in late 2002.
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