Thanks, Andrew. Pre-filtering via the MTA is what I’m using instead. I was just frustrated that I couldn’t figure out why the milter whitelist wasn’t working.
Dan > On 21 Dec 2025, at 20:57, Andrew C Aitchison via clamav-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, Daniel Colquitt via clamav-users wrote: > >> From the man page for clamav-milter.conf >> <https://linux.die.net/man/5/clamav-milter.conf> >> >>> Whitelist STRING >>> This option specifies a file which contains a list of basic POSIX regular >>> expressions. Addresses (sent to or from - see below) matching these regexes >>> will not be scanned. Optionally each line can start with the string "From:" >>> or "To:" (note: no whitespace after the colon) indicating if it is, >>> respectively, the sender or recipient that is to be whitelisted. If the >>> field is missing, "To:" is assumed. Lines starting with #, : or ! are >>> ignored. >> >> However, with the whitelist set as defined in my original message, emails >> from [email protected] are still scanned and, indeed, flagged as infected. I >> would like messages from emails that match the whitelist to be excluded from >> the scan. > > My first thought would be to whitelist those emails in your MTA (mailserver) > so that it does not pass them to ClamAV. > Which MTA are you using ? > > -- > Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > > Manage your clamav-users mailing list subscription / unsubscribe: > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation > > https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat _______________________________________________ Manage your clamav-users mailing list subscription / unsubscribe: https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat
