Virus scanning spam

[Julian Field]

I believe this problem has been solved already.

At 20:59 27/05/2004, you wrote:
>On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 08:39:37PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 20:31 27/05/2004, you wrote:
> > >>From the MAQ:
> > >
> > >"16- Hey, MailScanner doesn't scan high scoring spam (or something I don't
> > >"deliver")!
> > >Anything which is not delivered or forwarded is not virus scanned. Here is
> > >an explanation and workaround. Pretty simple, instead of not delivering,
> > >do a store to an alias pointing to /dev/null. Thanks to Phil and Kai :)."
> > >
> > >Question: If the logical decision to do this is exactly as outlined in the
> > >previous paragraph, (I don't do Perl so it would be difficult for me to
> > >know), could one change the option to "anything that isn't delivered,
> > >forwarded or stored" so that it would scan even high scoring spam that's
> > >stored in the quarantine?
> >
> > I intentionally only ever put untouched mail in the quarantine. There isn't
> > much point virus scanning something, throwing away the original content,
> > and putting the results in the quarantine.
>
>I think this has been mentioned either here or on the mailwatch list.
>
>I've seen a behaviour where the file that ends up in the quarantine is
>a mailscanner report (i think, this is a while ago), rather than the
>attachment.  The workaround is to set "Quarantine Whole Messages = yes".
>
>I meant to look into it, but it got burried in my todo list.
>
>I have a system which I believe will still do this if you need it.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Paddy
>
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