Virus scanning spam

[Alex Neuman]

But it's an inelegant kludge, and it requires mail to go twice through the
system. Don't like the way it sounds, maybe because I'm thinking in
digestive terms ;)

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Ugo Bellavance
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:44 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Virus scanning spam


Alex Neuman 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?

You could follow the recommendation in the maq to get the same result.

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