mailscanner apply virus outbound?

[Julian Field]

At 21:45 27/08/2003, you wrote:
>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...

No reason that I can think of.

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

I try not to. My mail queue grows too fast whenever I 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
> > Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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Julian Field
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Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
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