query regarding qurantine release

[Scott Silva]

Mail Administrator spake the following on 9/4/2007 1:28 PM:
> Dear All,
> 
> 
> I have the following setup on my server
> 
> 1) Centos
> Primary Mail server
> Primary dns server
> Mailscanner
> Webmail server
> 
> most of the users use their browser to login to the above server for
> sending and checking their mails
> everything is been workin perfectly
> 
> i installed mailwatch so that i could release quarantine mails at my decision
> 
> i then followed the exact steps as mentioned in the FAQ
> 
> http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=mailwatch:faq
> 
> and now i tried to test
> 
> i sent a mail with attachment from my Yahoo account to my local mail
> server and it was blocked my mailscanner whcih is perfect
> n i logged in mailwatch and i could release the attachment and after i
> released if went perfectly to my mailbox. thats grt
> 
> now i sent a mail with attachemnt from my local account using webmail to
> my yahoo account and it went perfectly fine
> 
> and in my mailwatch details ..
> status as whitelist
> spam score 0.00
> 
> since 127.0.0.1 is white listed as per the rules..
> 
> So i see that Mailscanner n mailwatch works jus perfect for the mails
> received its grt
> 
> but i have queries regading mail sent by users using the browser with webmail
> 
> 1) does mailscanner do a virus n spam check on the mails sent since i see
> in mailwatch the status is
> 
> status as whitelist
> spam score 0.00
> cause if this does not happen then the users pc inefcted will cause the
> mail server to spam or send infected mails out
> 
> 2) obviously i would like mailscanner to scan and block any attachments
> sent by my users via webmail and they should only be sent when released
> from quarantine with mailwatch
> 
> how do i the above .. setup rules for doin that
> 
> basically i see that after i implemented the steps in FAQ regarding the
> release of quarantine mails i see that it works perfect for mails with
> attachment received and not for mails sent
> 
> 
> really wd apprecite your help
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Simon
> 
Are you running squirrelmail as your webmail server?



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