Quarantined attachments

[Ken Anderson (Pacific Internet)]

If you are using sendmail, just store them as queue files (see
MailScanner.conf) and then to 'release', just cp them into the outgoing
mail queue. They will bypass mailscanner.
Ken


InvictaWiz Customer Support wrote:

> Hi
>
> I wrote a script to deliver quarantined attachments.
> Easy I thought.....
>
> MS re-stripped the attachment - Bother!
>
> I whitelisted my From: address - quarantine at blahblah - Surely that will fix it...
> No!
> What seems to happen is that MS doesn't strip the attachment on the way in because
> quarantine at blahblah is whitelisted. However, what seems to happen is the message gets re-scanned on
> it's way to the destination address - also on this server of course. MS then thinks "Ah Ha, I must
> strip this dodgi attachment"
>
> Have I made a fundamental mistake?
> How do others deliver dodgi attachments out of quarantine?
>
>
>
> Martyn Routley
>
>
>
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