Mailscanner & antivirus question

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Thu Jul 19 21:59:02 IST 2007



nboric at contexte.fr wrote:
>
> I have a question concerning the mailscanner antivirus treatment.
>
> When Spamassassin job is done, Mailscanner knows if the message is 
> spam or not. If the spam score is high enough and message will be 
> discarded anyway why call antivirus software after ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Nenad
>

Messages can become "undiscarded", especially when you use MailWatch. It 
would be beneficial to know if you are releasing a dangerous email or 
just a poorly scored false positive.

Steve Campbell



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