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 ?
> 
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> Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
>                   [email protected]
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