Scanning outgoing

[Brian Dowling]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:55:01 +0100, Julian Field
<mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

>At 14:18 07/06/2004, you 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?
>
>Are you using a sendmail recent enough to have a clientmqueue directory? If
>so, all outbound mail should be scanned. If not, then you will have to
>reconfigure your mail software so that it sends mail by talking SMTP to
>localhost and does not invoke the sendmail binary directly.
>
>You can find out by sending yourself mail including the eicar test file,
>available from www.eicar.org.
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Could you explain your comments in detail or point me to some documentation?
Sure would like to get this handled.

Thanks,
Brian

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