High Scoring Spam and Virus scanning

[Julian Field]

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Steve Ellis wrote:

> Since upgrading to MailScanner 4.42.8-1 from 4.35.11 messages that 
> were previously deleted due to High scoring spam action are now also 
> being virus scanned. Is this the result of a design change that I 
> missed, or a bug? If it's from a design change is there any setting 
> which would give the previous behavior?

They may be virus scanned, but is this fact actually reflected in what 
happens to the message?

>
> I have
>     Silent Viruses = All-Viruses
>     Quarantine Silent Viruses = no
>     Keep Spam And MCP Archive Clean = no
>
> Example Log entry:
> Jun  2 07:52:38 ben MailScanner[29854]: Message j52BqPBf030435 from 
> 70.106.83.54 (tchen at tplinc.com) to kazakcomposites.com is spam, 
> SpamAssassin (score=36.958, required 5, autolearn=spam, ....
> Jun  2 07:52:38 ben MailScanner[29854]: Spam Actions: message 
> j52BqPBf030435 actions are delete
> Jun  2 07:52:39 ben MailScanner[29854]: ClamAVModule::INFECTED:: 
> Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1:: ./j52BqPBf030435/your_document.pif
>
>
>
>
> Steve Ellis
> Sr. Engineer
> KaZaK Composites, Inc
>
> 781.932.5667 x105
>
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