MailScanner ANNOUNCE 4.37.2

[Steen, Glenn]

Um, is this to say it'll behave the same as having the "spam actions
deliver to /dev/null", or will it just drop the dangerous messages?
(Yeah, I've been to lazy to DL it yet:-)

-- Glenn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list 
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: den 12 december 2004 21:40
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCE 4.37.2
> 
> 
> Remco Barendse wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Julian Field wrote:
> >
> >> I have just released beta version 4.37.2.
> >>
> >> The main new feature is one that some of you have been 
> waiting for a
> >> long time, and I hope I have come up with a resonable 
> solution to the
> >> problem you were hitting, while not solving it the way you 
> suggested
> >> (bit of lateral thinking went on here :-)
> >>
> >> If you quarantine spam, you end up with the quarantine containing
> >> virus-infected spam as well.
> >> Bad news if you want to give your users access to be able 
> to retrieve
> >> messages from the quarantine. They can retrieve viruses as well.
> >>
> >> There is a new option:
> >>   Keep Spam And MCP Archive Clean
> >> If you set this to yes, then all spam will be 
> virus-scanned, and removed
> >> from the quarantine if it was found to be infected in any 
> way. This way,
> >> your users can't infect themselves.
> >>
> >> I hope this is to your liking, it's not the most elegant 
> implementation,
> >> but doing it elegantly was such a big job it was never 
> going to happen.
> >> Please let me know what you think.
> >
> >
> > Great option! Just one question, will this keep the 
> quarantine clean of
> > bad stuff that was reported by clamav or also of mails that contain
> > insecure / scripts etc?
> 
> Clean of anything deemed to be an infection. Bad filenames, viruses,
> etc. That includes messages that have scripts in them, all that stuff.
> The aim is to leave the quarantine harmless.
> But the messages in there won't be "disarmed" they will just 
> be removed
> if dangerous content was found in them. That's due to the way I
> implemented it (i.e. not perfect but it did happen at all :)
> 
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