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

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jan 20 16:44:56 GMT 2005


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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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