Spam checks first or virus

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Sat Feb 18 17:35:33 GMT 2012


On 2/17/2012 8:11 AM, Ram wrote:
> I noticed that when I upgraded MailScanner to the latest version 4.84
> virus checks happen before spam checks
> 
> Why is this so ?


This was done to support detection of "spam-viruses", i.e., spam
detected by virus scanner signatures such as those from
<http://www.sanesecurity.net/>. See the entries for 4.78.3 at
<http://www.mailscanner.info/ChangeLog>


> If this can be configured , how can I do it ?


It is not configurable.

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