deleting emails directly

[Simon Fraser]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 11:13:25AM +0100, Sven Schwedas wrote:

> > I'm running a virus scan over the spool directory and wonder how to get 
> > those messages removed within which a virus has been found.  The easiest 
> > way would be to let the virus scanner do this, and the virus scanner 
> > doesn't use IMAP.
> 
> Wouldn't it be safer to integrate the virus scanner in your MTA's
> processing pipeline, /before/ delivering it to clients that might
> automatically download the viruses before your file-based virus scanner
> has a chance to delete it?

Doing both would be best, I believe. We scan the spool, and it finds a
few items that have made it into the virus definitions between delivery
and the scan.

Simon.



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