Quarantined attachments

[Ugo Bellavance]

InvictaWiz Customer Support wrote:
> Hi
>
> I wrote a script to deliver quarantined attachments.
> Easy I thought.....
>
> MS re-stripped the attachment - Bother!
>
> I whitelisted my From: address - quarantine at blahblah - Surely that will fix it...
> No!
> What seems to happen is that MS doesn't strip the attachment on the way in because
> quarantine at blahblah is whitelisted. However, what seems to happen is the message gets re-scanned on
> it's way to the destination address - also on this server of course. MS then thinks "Ah Ha, I must
> strip this dodgi attachment"

Whitelist is only for spam.

>
> Have I made a fundamental mistake?
> How do others deliver dodgi attachments out of quarantine?

You must use rulesets to make sure it is not virus-scanned or
filetype/filename checked when it comes from 127.0.0.1
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/233.html

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> Martyn Routley
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