High-scoring virus spam not scanned

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Sun Mar 7 18:23:53 GMT 2004


>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Envoyé : 7 mars, 2004 13:21
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: High-scoring virus spam not scanned
>
>
>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.

Ok, so the virus checks are performed only on a "deliver" ?

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