Toby Reiter wrote:

>Hey all,
>I have Xmail 1.16 on Linux with SpamAssassin and ClamAntivirus 
>running with the standard filters for these programs (i.e. Lindeman's 
>AV filter and Don Drake's SA filter).
>
>In general, these filters work great, but recently we've been 
>noticing a few email messages that have been not filtered, I'll give 
>examples:
>
>a) Messages that are sent within our local network or that are being 
>SMTP Relayed through a server on our local network are being missed 
>by the AV filter or by both filters. Sometimes these messages will be 
>SA filtered without being AV filtered, but they are never just AV 
>filtered.
>
>b) Messages with encoding errors (usually b/c they have poorly 
>attached virus attachments) and which are being SA filtered but not 
>AV filtered
>
>c) In a few limited cases, a well-encoded message from outside the 
>network is SA filtered but not AV filtered.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas about this? Since the filters do work 75 - 
>85% percent of the time (or more) I don't really feel like going into 
>debug mode is necessarily going to help: I think this is more of a 
>"Why isn't this working in theory?" question than a syntax error in 
>one of my filter files.
>
>Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>
>  
>

Which filter runs first? Which versions of the filters are you running?

Jeff

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