Scan Only, Not Clean

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Aug 23 10:22:15 IST 2002


Eek!

Please don't tweak the code unless you **really** have to. This is a really
bad idea...

At 12:08 23/08/2002, you wrote:
>* Eddie Javier <eljl at I-SNAPINTERNET.COM> [Aug 23. 2002 04:18]:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there a way to configure mailscanner in order for it to Scan only
> and not
> > Clean? This would greatly improve the time it takes to process a message.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > -eljl
>
>Hi Eddie
>I don't know if there's an easy way to do that, but I suppose you could
>turn it off in sweep.pl (on a standard Debian system it can be found in
>/usr/share/mailscanner/).
>
>Locate the section containing options for your particular virusscanner in
>the part beginning with
>"my %Scanners = (
>   sophos => {"
>
>and change the line:
>
>     SupportDisinfect    => [something]
>
>to
>
>     SupportDisinfect    => $S_NONE
>
>I haven't tested it, but from the rest of the code it appears that a
>message will then be logged instead of cleaning anything.
>
>(I'm sure Julian will correct me if I'm wrong :-)
>
>Best regards
>-Jonas

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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