Re: clamav-milter whitelist

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 ?

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    [email protected]
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