About quarantined mails

[Julian Field]

At 20:19 16/09/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a question about quarantined mails.  I installed MailScanner
>4.23-11 on a RH7.3 Linux system.  It seems working now.  Some users are
>worried about missing some of non-spam mails.  The following are some of
>my configuration lines:
>
>Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
>Quarantine Infections = yes
>Quarantine Whole Message = yes
>Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = yes
>
>Virus Scanning = yes
>Virus Scanners = clamav
>Virus Scanner Timeout = 300
>Deliver Disinfected Files = yes
>Deliver Cleaned Messages = yes
>
>Use SpamAssassin = yes
>Spam Actions = store

Add
         High Scoring Spam Actions = store
to this lot.

>....
>
>My questions are:
>
>1. Some mails are quarantined in
>/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20030916/spam (for today).  When I
>check them, I find some of them are not junk mails.  How to deliver them
>to the supposed receiver?

Drop the qf+df pair into the outgoing queue.

>2. I notice that each quarantined mail is splitted into 2 parts, e.g. the
>name is dfh8GFS6v13245 and qfh8GFS6v13245.  If there is a way to
>re-deliver this mail, how to "combine" or merge them into an "original"
>or regular mail to deliver?

Yes, drop them in the outgoing queue (and then run sendmail -q to force a
queue run).

>3. Some other mails are simply rejected by MailScanner, and root received
>a copy of "rejecting mail".  Again, some of them are not junk-mails.

The logs should contain some reason for why they were rejected.

>4. How to adjust the rule to reduce in-correct quarantining and rejecting
>non-junk mails?

Change the Required SpamAssassin Score

>5. If a mail has any virus, will that mail be quarantined or repaired?
>How to check the information?

It will be quarantined, and the "cleaned" message will be delivered to the
original recipient.
Check it in your maillog.


>Thanks!
>
>Hongwei

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