Doesn't scan for virus on spam forwarded to an email address

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

You can always install clamav-milter so that sendmail catches viruses before
mailscanner does, thereby reducing the load on your server - if you use
sendmail.

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Julian Field
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:45 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Doesn't scan for virus on spam forwarded to an email address

Upgrade to the latest version and see if it still a problem. I can't
remember from that long ago (10 months).

Danny Beland wrote:

>Here is a description of our system.
>
>MailScanner 4.28.6
>SpamAssassin 2.64
>McAfee virus scanner
>
>The way were are setup is that all spam is forwarded to an email account.
>The problem we have is that  if the email is detected as spam, the
>email is forwarded to the spam email account without being scanned for
>viruses. Some emails are detected as spam and contain a virus.
>Is there a way to scan for viruses before scanning for spam?
>Maybe there is other ways to deal with this problem, but that is the
>only solution I found.
>
>

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