Scanning outgoing

[Ugo Bellavance]

Brian Dowling wrote:

> 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.

Did you try sending the eicar test virus through?

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