Virus infected attachment removal

[James Beale]

Julian

Thanks so much for the - as always - most helpful reply.  And yes, dead
right, version 3.22-10, to be precise!  How did you know!?!  :)  (No reply
needed to that!)  I shall do as you advise, and upgrade to see what happens.

Again, thank you.

James.


On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:15:29 +0000, Julian Field
<mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

>You are running a *very* old version of MailScanner, probably version 3.
>Version 4 was released in the summer of 2002, to give you some idea.
>Upgrade to a rather more recent version.
>
>At 23:06 02/03/2004, you wrote:
>>Hi
>>
>>Firstly, apologies.  I'm feeling a little sheepish that I can't work this
>>out for myself!
>>
>>I'm using Mailscanner with Command Software's virus scanner.  Mail is
being
>>picked up via Fetchmail.  I am testing with Eicar test virus, and using
>>Openwebmail as my client.
>>
>>Mailscanner correctly identifies that the incoming mail has a virus, and
>>deposits {VIRUS?} in the subject field.  What I can't seem to do is get
the
>>attachment either disinfected or removed from the message.  Eicar is not
in
>>any activated "allowed" list or other.
>>
>>I have messed around with the following, and currently have them set to:
>>Deliver To Recipients = yes
>>Deliver From Local Domains = yes
>>Action = delete
>>Deliver Disinfected Files = yes
>>
>>Not for the first time I feel I'm missing something obvious...
>>
>>Thanks very much.
>>
>>James.
>
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