Stored Spam vs Virus Infected

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Derek Winkler wrote:
> I'm having a problem with stored spam, when users try to retrieve by having
> them resent they are rescanned by MailScanner again which then detects a
> virus and doesn't send. Works fine when the email doesn't contain a virus.
>
> The log entries show that on Jan 4, this email was determined to be spam and
> stored.
>
> The user then tried to retrieve it on the 11th and a virus was detected.
>
> Why wasn't the virus detected on the 4th?
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Is virus scanning not done if action is store? or if the message is spam?
>
> Stored mail is stored as queue files, resends drop the file back in the
> mqueue.in directory with some changes to ensure they aren't detected as spam
> again.
>
> Please let me know if you need addtional information.
>

The answer is here:

http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/#highsconotscanned

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