Vexira command line switches

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Mar 30 18:55:51 IST 2005


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No problem.

For info, there is no way of delivering a virus to an original recipient
(not that I know of anyway :-)
There is no configuration option to allow this. A few people have asked
for it in the past (heaven only knows why!) but I have always refused to
implement it, as it's a dumb thing to ask for :-) They get a quick slap
with the "clue bat".

RedRed!com IT Department wrote:

> Julian,
>
>    I'm an idiot, sorry, I found the settings in MailScanner.conf
> dealing with silent viruses and so on. I guess I should lay off the
> coffee, maybe I'll slow down enough to actually see what I'm reading.
> Talk to you later.
>
> Sean
>
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Why hack MailScanner to achieve something it already does perfectly well
>> anyway?
>>
>> As long as you have switched on virus scanning and have told it which
>> scanner to use, it won't deliver a virus to your customers anyway.
>> Deleting them by hacking MailScanner won't make any difference at all.
>> And people who hack MailScanner don't get any support from me either,
>> unless there is a very good reason for them having made a change.
>
>
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