Scanning Order

[Desai, Jason]

Brendan Chard wrote:
> Is there a way to have the Virus and Content scanning happen before
> the Spam scanning?
>
> I've just got MailWatch installed so now I have my low scoring spam
> going to quarantine.  Problem is, some virus messages are getting
> quarantined as spam before they get nailed and deleted as a virus.
> This throws off my mail stats (%ham %spam %virus) and also puts
> messages that are really viruses into quarantine.

If you're concerned with spam messages not being checked for viruses, you
could always modify your (high|non) spam actions.  For actions that you do
not deliver on, forward to a dummy address.  This will cause MailScanner to
also scan it for viruses, and MailWatch would show it as a virus too.

Jase

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