High Scoring Spam and Virus scanning

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jun 2 22:22:36 IST 2005


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Steve Ellis wrote:

> Julian wrote:
>
>
>> They may be virus scanned, but is this fact actually reflected in 
>> what happens to the message?
>
>
> The message does get virus scanned, followed by filename and type 
> checked. Then the message is deleted.

With my patch the messages should get deleted after they are MCP and 
spam scanned. The other tests would have been necessary if any part of 
the spam+mcp archive was being kept clean. The patch optimises the 
simple case when it is "no" for all messages.

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