How to prevent multiple scans on same email?

[Jerry Benton]

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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Norman <msdiscus at tradelink-admin.com>wrote:

>  Hi List,
>
> I have this conundrum which I am hoping the experts on here will help me
> resolve. :)
>
> How do I tell mailscanner not to rescan an email that it had already
> scanned?
>
> I have a small server set up with mailscanner, spamassassin, etc. whose
> sole purpose is to process the inbound and outbound emails for a separate
> mail server. The mail flows well between the mail server and the
> mailscanner server. The issue I have is with 'forwarders', which are, as
> all of you will know, essentially an email address that is set up to
> forward incoming emails to another email address.
>
> Briefly, an incoming email for a 'forwarder' first hits the mailscanner
> server (being the primary mx), it gets processed for spam and viruses and
> then handed to the mail server. The mail server sees that the local address
> is not an email account but a 'forwarder', so it sends the email back to
> the mailscanner server for processing and distribution. That is fine.
> However, MailScanner treats the email on the second pass as completely
> 'new' and scans it for spam and viruses again, which is unneeded and
> causes unwanted resource usage.
>
> Is it possible to tell mailscanner not to scan twice by having it
> evaluate the headers so it could see that it is dealing with an email
> which it had already scanned? I couldn't find any options for this in the
> .conf file. The MTA on both servers is Exim, in case that may be relevant.
>
> Regards,
>
> Norman
>
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Jerry Benton
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