Scanning outbound mail?

Denis Beauchemin Denis.Beauchemin at usherbrooke.ca
Mon Feb 13 16:16:45 GMT 2012


Richard,

We scan outbound mail and bounce detected spam. Been doing it for years without any ill effects.

Denis

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> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] De la part de Richard Lynch
> Envoyé : 9 février 2012 11:47
> À : MailScanner discussion
> Objet : Scanning outbound mail?
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> Hi Everyone,
> 
> We currently don't use MailScanner to scan outbound mail -- we only scan
> inbound messages.  We do use clamav with some of the sanesecurity DBs on
> outbound but that's it.  Scanning outbound mail would be problematic
> because of false positives and differing requirements.  For example, I don't
> want to bounce spam detected messages on inbound but on outbound it
> would probably be a requirement so that the sender (one of our users)
> would know that their message wasn't sent.
> 
> So, I'm trying to get a feel for what other sites do.  Do you use MailScanner
> for outbound mail?  If so how do you handle messages that are rejected?  Do
> you bounce it or just ignore it or what?
> 
> I appreciate any input or advise anyone wants to offer.
> 
> Richard Lynch
> WVNET
> 
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