Question about virus/rules

[Julian Field]

At 18:06 15/09/2003, you wrote:
>In looking at the mailscanner.conf I notice that the following entry appears
>to allow rules-based virus scanning;
>
><SNIP>
># If you want to be able to switch scanning on/off for different users or
># different domains, set this to the filename of a ruleset.
># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
>Virus Scanning = yes
></SNIP>
>
>meaning I could point MS to a rules file and scan mail for viruses based on
>typical rules syntax...

Correct.


>HOWEVER...
>
>is it safe to say that the scanners that are used is NOT configurable in the
>same way?  Meaning, if I want example.com to be scanned with both Sophos AND
>ClamAV...I could point to s rules file that looks like this:
>
>FromOrTo: example.com sophossavi clamav
>FromOrTo: example.net    sophossavi
>
>I have a need to apply virus to some email and not to others granularly like
>this.

No you can't do this. Because MailScanner scans messages in batches for
huge performance gains, the same scanners must be applied to all messages.


>CT

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