MailScanner process virus checking of messages marked as SPAM

[Petr Zeman]

thnx for answers .. Virus scanners = kaspersky-4.5 clamd

clamav version is 0.91.2
kaspersky is 5.5.3

computer P4 at 2.8 GHz and 1 GB RAM, running SuSE 9.3


Petr Zeman
JULI Motorenwerk, s.r.o.
organizace a informatika
tel. 547 124 199
zeman at juli.cz


Julian Field napsal(a):
> 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
>