ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.37.3 released

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

I do understand your point, and agree wholeheartedly with your reasons for
this. I just brought it up as an FYI, not as a gripe. Perhaps someone on the
list could offer a procmail recipe or some other way where every piece of
"clean" mail can be archived to mbox files? I don't know enough about
procmail to do something like that, but I'm sure a couple of the list
regulars here are familiar enough with it... How about it, guys? Anyone? :)

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Julian Field
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 7:20 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.37.3 released

Brian Parish wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:05 am, Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
>
>
>>Too bad you can't do a "keep 'Archive Mail' Archive clean"...
>>
>>
>
>Yes - I've been meaning to ask about this.  Archived mail skips virus
>checking
>- correct?  If so, I don't understand the logic of this.
>
>
The "Archive Mail" archive is intentionally kept as an identical copy of
what comes in. Most of the people who use this feature are financial and
legal companies where they must archive their email by law. This archive
must be an exact copy, else it has no use whatsoever as a legal copy.
This archive was never meant to be accessed by your users.

I also use it for building test datasets of hundreds of thousands of
messages, which I use for load and capacity testing. A filtered archive
would be no use for this at all.

Changing this archive so that it could be kept 'clean' would be quite a
major change, so I am very reluctant to do it. As MailScanner works through
a batch of messages, it clears messages out of memory once it has finished
with them, so it doesn't do more processing on a message than is absolutely
needed.

Hope you understand.

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