Scan for viruses before scanning for spam

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Wed Feb 2 16:49:02 GMT 2005


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Danny Beland wrote:
> Is there a way to scan for viruses before scanning for spam or to scan
> forwarded messages for viruses? The problem we have is we set MailScanner
> to forward all spam to a mailbox, when it forwards it, it doesn't scan the
> message for viruses. We use SA 2.64 and McAfee virus scan.

Are you sure it doesn't scan it?  I forward low-scoring spam and they
all have this header:

X-camo-route-MailScanner: Found to be clean

>
> Thanks,
>
> Danny
>

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