Virus scanning spam

[Alex Neuman]

I'm glad you agree... the only way there would be a point in it would be to
put the results in the quarantine only if it's not a virus. I don't believe
in quarantining known viruses, but I *do* think it's useful to hold on to(at
least temporarily) known non-viral spam if only to avoid the perils of the
rarely occurring false positive.

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Julian Field
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:40 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Virus scanning spam


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.
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