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[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

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You can try the "bogus virus warnings" SpamAssassin rules. Works pretty
well most of the time.

Mathias Koerber wrote:

> Hi MailScanner gurus,
>
> I am getting very frustrated by the many bounce-messages we receive
> which are in response to some virus elsewhere using our email addresses
> in the From: headers.
>
> Is there a way (in MailScanner) to
>         a) have MailScanner record the message-id of all outgoing emails
>            passing though it
>         b) matching certain incoming emails, such as bounces against
>            that list and acting differently according to whether the
>            original mail was known or not
>
> formail -D does have a facility to record message-IDs, but I believe
> calling formail on every outgoing email may be quite heavy, and we are
> still lacking a facility to check the database on incoming emails.
>
> Also, some tool will be required to clean out the database regularly,
> unless like in formail the database can be of limited size and
> old records get lost when the database fills up.
>
> Has anyone implemented such a facility in Mailscanner yet?
>
> Any hints where I should start looking if I wanted to try this
> myself (ie, where are the hooks etc)

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