Mailscanner and SpamChecks

[Rose, Bobby]

Also, in light of the ongoing mass-mailing viruses, wouldn't it be
better if the virus and content checks ran before the spam checks so
that the spam check routines have less messages to look at?  Doesn't
make sense to spam check messages with a banned attachment types or
virus if they're to be dropped or quaranteened later.



-----Original Message-----
From: Rose, Bobby 
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 7:00 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Mailscanner and SpamChecks


Another question, I noticed that even if Spam Checks is off, the logs
still say spam checks.  I know that that comes from the log spam option,
but the MS processes are still running thru the spam check subroutines
in MessageBatch.  Granted it's really not doing the checks, I was still
wondering why it just doesn't skip the spam/ham routines altogether and
go straight to virus checking when spam checks is off.

We had routing issues today and got dumped on when it came back up so
I've been staring at queues and logs all day.  I'd turned off the spam
checks to clear the queues faster and it just couldn't go fast enough
for me. ;-)