mailscanner apply virus outbound?

[Chris Trudeau]

Great...

probably just a user sending a party invitation...

I'm ok with that...

So in a postfix-in -> deferred

MailScanner

postfix-out-> recipient domain mailserver scenario...there would be no
reason the message is not scanned...

good!!!  Thanks Julian...do you ever sleep?

CT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: mailscanner apply virus outbound?


> At 21:39 27/08/2003, you wrote:
> >Provided I have set Virus Scanning = yes
> >
> >Will all mail inbound and outbound be scanned for viruses?  I KNOW
inbound
> >are being scanned successfully....however, I just saw a message with a
LARGE
> >number of different recipients go through my system outbound several of
> >which appear to be be causing bounces from destinations.
> >
> >I want to be sure that my users aren't sending out viruses...
> >
> >is it possible that the scanner would NOT be applied to outbound
messages?
>
> If you are running an old version of sendmail and are invoking the
sendmail
> binary directly (on the MailScanner server) to deliver outbound mail, then
> the mail will avoid the incoming SMTP service and hence not be scanned.
>
> In *all* other situations, MailScanner will scan every bit of mail,
whether
> outbound or inbound.
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
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