Blocking attachments instead of just removing them

[Julian Field]

At 23:06 27/08/2003, you wrote:
>I was planning on implementing virus scanning with MailScanner in the near
>future (I probably should have mentioned that).  If I set Deliver Cleaned
>Messages = no , won't it also block any messages that contain viruses that
>have been successfully cleaned?

Yes, but that forms a very small %-age of total infected mail these days,
so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

>   Also, will that setting effect spam
>messages?

Only infected spam.


>At 21:39 27/08/2003, you wrote:
> >I am new to MailScanner, however I must say I am very impressed so far.
> >I am attempting to block all e-mail messages with certain attachments
> >(.scr, .pif, etc . . .) as I'm sure many admins are right now.  I have
> >figured out how to remove those attachments and then insert a message
> >in the body and send it on to the intended recipient but I would like
> >to stop the messages with these attachments all together.  Note I am
> >not running MailScanner with any antivirus (I already had a gateway
> >antivirus running on another machine).
>
>Deliver Cleaned Messages = no
>
>
> >Thank you very much in advance.
> >
> >lists at trcintl.com
>
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