MailScanner ANNOUNCE 4.37.2

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Dec 14 11:27:58 GMT 2004


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John Wilcock wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> John Wilcock wrote:
>>
>>> Installed this beta yesterday. It seems that messages destined for the
>>> quarantine are indeed getting scanned for viruses, but they are not
>>> deleted, just flagged.
>>
>>
>> So they are being put in the spam quarantine? What MTA are you using?
>> This only applies if you have "store" amongst your "Spam Actions" and/or
>> "High Scoring Spam Actions".
>
>
> MTA = postfix
> Quarantine Infections = yes
> Quarantine Silent Viruses = yes
> Quarantine Whole Message = yes
> Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no
> Keep Spam And MCP Archive Clean = yes
> Spam Actions = store deliver
> High Scoring Spam Actions = store
>
> A high-scoring-spam message with a virus ends up with the message and
> attachment in the normal quarantine *and* a second copy of the message
> in the spam quarantine.

I have just tried this setup (though with Is Definitely Spam = yes and
Definite Spam Is High Scoring = yes) and I can't reproduce the problem
with sendmail. I can't make reproduce it with Definite Spam Is High
Scoring = no either.

Which MTA are you using?

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