MailScanner process virus checking of messages marked as SPAM

[Julian Field]

What is your "Virus Scanners =" set to in MailScanner.conf?
Virus scanning shouldn't add much to the load, it's a very quick 
process. I'm slightly concerned that yours is apparently taking as long 
as 7 seconds.

Petr Zeman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i am using MailScanner 4.61.2 with SpamAssassin enabled and with 2 
> antivirus scanners (kaspersky and clamav). 90% of all e-mails is SPAM 
> and server is heavy loaded. When i searching why, i found in log:
>
> Apr 11 14:17:40 mail MailScanner[4940]: New Batch: Scanning 1 
> messages, 1743 bytes
> Apr 11 14:17:40 mail MailScanner[4940]: Spam Checks: Starting
> Apr 11 14:17:46 mail MailScanner[4940]: Message m3BCHYfn006104 from 
> 60.52.94.167 (pesseist_1980 at 1370wbtn.com) to juli.cz is spam, 
> SpamAssassin (not cached, score=10.147, required 5, BAYES_99 3.50, 
> DCC_CHECK 2.17, DIGEST_MULTIPLE 0.00, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, 
> RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 0.50, RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100 1.50, 
> RAZOR2_CHECK 0.50, URIBL_JP_SURBL 1.50, URIBL_SC_SURBL 0.47)
> Apr 11 14:17:46 mail MailScanner[4940]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam 
> messages
> Apr 11 14:17:46 mail MailScanner[4940]: Spam Actions: message 
> m3BCHYfn006104 actions are store,header
> Apr 11 14:17:46 mail MailScanner[4940]: 
> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info and Content Scanning: Starting
> Apr 11 14:17:53 mail MailScanner[4940]: Logging message m3BCHYfn006104 
> to SQL
>
> MailScanner process virus checking of messages marked as SPAM. Is 
> possible disable this?
>
> Sorry for my bad english.
>

Jules

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