Quarantining

[Steve Freegard]

Hi Errol,

MailScanner does not virus check a message unless it is delivering it
somewhere and not deleting the message.  Having 'store' as a spam action
implicity delete's the message and therefore it doesn't get Virus Scanned.

There is a workaround in the FAQ for this:
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/277.html

Kind regards,
Steve.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: System Admins [mailto:sysadmins at ENHTECH.COM]
> Sent: 07 April 2004 13:58
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Quarantining
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I just started to quarantine messages yesterday. We are
> building an application that will facilitate valid senders
> that get a false positive to have their messages delivered.
> We just direct them to a web form where they put their To:
> From: and subject: data into and it performs a search of the
> quarantine and displays any matching messages. The problem is
> that we only want to quarantine low scoring spam and their
> attachments. We do not want to quarantine viruses. However in
> looking at the message store, I see several messages with
> .pif, .scr and other virus infected attachments. I'm confused
> because Quarantine Infections = no and I am using Spam
> Actions to "store" the low scoring spam. Furthermore, Virus
> Scanning occurs before Spam detections are done. I was under
> the assumption that infections were deleted/removed. Can
> anyone clarify/help? Also, is there a way to not quarantine viruses?
>
> Also, I've seen this topic on the list however I am unable to
> find the thread. Can anyone share with me a method to
> actually deliver these quarantined messages that bypasses
> MailScanner? We are quarantining as queue files.
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Errol Neal
>

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