High-scoring virus spam not scanned

[Randal, Phil]

Thanks, Peter.

The FAQ entry is here:

  http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/277.html

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Peter Bonivart
> Sent: 07 March 2004 18:51
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: High-scoring virus spam not scanned
>
>
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > Cool, thanks Peter.
>
> Actually, I don't deserve credit for it. Phil Randal posted it a while
> ago and I read everything. ;-)
>
>  >MailScanner does not bother to virus scan emails which are
> flagged as
>  >high-scoring Spam when the "High Scoring Spam Actions" do
> not deliver
>  >or forward, even if the items are stored in quarantine. I'd like to
>  >know that we're storing a virus, so the workaround I use
> with sendmail
>  >is:
>  >
>  >  High Scoring Spam Actions = store forward
> spam at localhost.localdomain
>  >
>  >and add to /etc/aliases
>  >
>  >  spam  /dev/null
>  >
>  >(and then do a "newaliases")
>  >
>  >I've added this to the FAQ-o-matic.
>  >
>  >Cheers,
>  >
>  >Phil
>
> --
> /Peter Bonivart
>
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