Scanning outgoing

Brian Dowling brian at GENERATIONZ.COM
Mon Jun 7 22:44:00 IST 2004


On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:53:51 -0400, Ugo Bellavance <ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM> wrote:

>Brian Dowling wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that with sendmail, outgoing messages are scanned,
>> although the logs don't reflect any outbound scanning activity. How can
>> outbound scanning be confirmed?
>
>The logs is the place...
>
>What is your setup?  Do you have an Exchange server that delivers
>directly to the recipient?  If so, you must tell this server to use your
>MailScanner to deliver.
>
>>
>> Thanks
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No exchange server. Sendmail 8.11 on a RH box using pop3 and imap
(Squirrelmail as the client). Spamassassin does all the spam tagging.

Logs say (for example) on incoming mail...

Jun  7 15:04:37 ns1 MailScanner[2268]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 4638
bytes
Jun  7 15:04:37 ns1 MailScanner[2268]: MCP Checks completed at 4638 bytes
per second
Jun  7 15:04:37 ns1 MailScanner[2268]: Spam Checks: Starting
Jun  7 15:04:37 ns1 MailScanner[2268]: Spam Checks completed at 4638 bytes
per second
Jun  7 15:04:37 ns1 MailScanner[2268]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Jun  7 15:04:38 ns1 MailScanner[2268]: Virus Scanning completed at 4638
bytes per second
Jun  7 15:04:38 ns1 MailScanner[2268]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
Jun  7 15:04:38 ns1 MailScanner[2268]: Virus Processing completed at 4638
bytes per second
Jun  7 15:04:38 ns1 MailScanner[2268]: Disinfection completed at 4638 bytes
per second
Jun  7 15:04:38 ns1 MailScanner[2268]: Batch completed at 4638 bytes per
second (4638 / 1)

Nothing on outgoing mail.

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