Skip scan for viruses

[Randal, Phil]

I think it is absolutely essential, for security reasons, to identify all
virus-infected emails, spam or not.

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
> Sent: 30 January 2004 09:51
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Skip scan for viruses
>
>
> Julian
>
> Our policy is to deliver spam and not viruses. This is so any FP's on
> the spam checks are still delivered, but any virus infected emails are
> not under any circumastances.
>
> May I suggest a flag that sets what to do first, virus or spam checks.
> That way if you deliver spam, but not viruses you don't waste CPU spam
> checking viral email?
>
> Not big deal for us as the machine is well capable of
> handling the load,
> but anything can help make MS more efficient would be helpful to many
> people.
>
> Keep up the good work...and have fun at the UKUUG winter conference.
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Julian Field wrote:
> > No. The spam detection is done before the virus detection.
> > That way you can avoid the extra work of scanning spam
> messages you are
> > deleting anyway.
> >
> > At 00:31 30/01/2004, you wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a way to configure MailScanner to skip the spam
> scan for emails
> >> that have been found to contain a virus?  I tag my subject
> lines for both
> >> positives and some users find this confusing.  I also have
> different
> >> notification settings for the two types of "badmail" and I
> don't want
> >> them
> >> mixing.
> >>
> >> -Ed
> >
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
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> > PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
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