Don't scan outgoing mail

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jul 3 19:14:36 IST 2002


At 19:00 03/07/2002, you wrote:
>   I'm looking into deploying mailscanner on our departmental server
>   which is a Sun Ultra10 running Solaris 8 and sendmail 8.12.5.  This
>   machine cares a heavy load and I would like to only scan incoming
>   mail and not scan outgoing mail.  I don't see an option to turn off
>   scanning outgoing mail in the mailscanner.conf.  Is it possible to
>   turn off outgoing scans?

Use separate servers to handle your incoming and outgoing mail. MailScanner
doesn't differentiate between mail going in/out.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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