High-scoring virus spam not scanned

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Mar 7 18:20:42 GMT 2004


At 18:10 07/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>         I am running Mailscanner 4.28.5-2 on fedora, with SA, DCC, Pyzor,
> RAzor and I got many messages today that were infected.  They were tagged
> as High-Scoring Spam, so they got stored only, as I ask.  However, it
> seems like they never got scanned for virus (clamav).  Nothing in the
> logs, nothing in mailwatch only spam.
>
>         I didn't get a virus that got (low-scoring) spam score, so I
> can't tell if I have the problem with low-scoring  spam as well.

Messages in the archive/quarantine are the original untouched messages, so
they may well be infected. Handle your quarantine with care.


>My settings:
>Spam Actions = store forward ti at camo-route.com
>
>High Scoring Spam Actions = store delete
>
>(BTW, is my "delete" necessary here? is it causing the problem?)

Unnecessary, but not a problem.

>Is this normal?

Yes.
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