"scan all messages" and spam checking?

[Julian Field]

At 17:53 28/05/2002, you wrote:
>    If "Scan All Messages" is set to no, do the plain-text messages get the
>anti-spam/SpamAssassin treatment, just no virus scanning?

Correct.

>   Or do they just
>get moved over to /var/spool/mqueue with no analysis at all?

No. But beware that you could get caught out by the "MyParty" virus if you
set this option to no.

>    And one more puzzlement...  I moved my mail service from HP-UX 11.0 to
>Solaris 8 yesterday.  Both use mailscanner; they only new wrinkle is that
>I've turned on SpamAssassin on the Sun box.  On the Sun, I see the syslog
>messages for "mailscanner...: Notified postmaster about [number] infections"
>but I don't get any email like I used to on the HP.  I've just wired in
>my own address in mailscanner.conf to see if this solves the problem.
>Any ideas?

Do a "sendmail -bv the.address.you.put.in.mailscanner.conf" and see where
it gets delivered to.
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