High Scoring Spam and Virus scanning

[Julian Field]

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It is partly a design change, but you have pointed out a common case 
where my current version is inefficient. If "Keep Spam And MCP Archive 
Clean" is no then there is no need to keep processing messages that 
won't be delivered.

Please try the attached patch for MessageBatch.pm and let me know how 
you get on.

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?
>
> 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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