Suggestion to speed MailScanner up

[Carlos Pastorino]

I have noticed that MailScanner checks for viruses even if the spam
has been marked for deletion.

Here's one example:

Feb  6 01:20:03 mailserver MailScanner[3368]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 1655 bytes
Feb  6 01:20:03 mailserver MailScanner[3368]: Spam Checks: Starting
Feb  6 01:20:04 mailserver MailScanner[3368]: RBL checks:
0338C2C0F7.99CBE found in SORBS-DNSBL, SBL+XBL, spamhaus-XBL,
spamcop.net
Feb  6 01:20:04 mailserver MailScanner[3368]: Message 0338C2C0F7.99CBE
from 219.150.57.14 (xpisig at spammer.domain) to mydomain.com.br is
SORBS-DNSBL, SBL+XBL, spamhaus-XBL, spamcop.net
Feb  6 01:20:04 mailserver MailScanner[3368]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam messages
Feb  6 01:20:04 mailserver MailScanner[3368]: Spam Actions: message
0338C2C0F7.99CBE actions are delete
Feb  6 01:20:04 mailserver MailScanner[3368]: Spam Checks completed at
1579 bytes per second
Feb  6 01:20:04 mailserver MailScanner[3368]: Virus and Content
Scanning: Starting
Feb  6 01:20:09 mailserver MailScanner[3368]: Virus Scanning completed
at 334 bytes per second
Feb  6 01:20:09 mailserver MailScanner[3368]: Batch completed at 275
bytes per second (1655 / 5)
Feb  6 01:20:09 mailserver MailScanner[3368]: Batch (1 message)
processed in 6.00 seconds


If the virus scanning were to be skipped in this case -- since the
message was going to be deleted anyway -- the processing time
should've been 1 second, instead of 6 seconds.

My suggestion is that MailScanner.conf gives us an option to only
check for viruses in the e-mails which are going to be delivered or
stored in the quarantine.

Any thoughts?

Best regards,

Pastorino