Francesco Vertova wrote:

>>I'm having a second thought about this. Maybe messages to mailing lists
>>shouldn't be scanned, since they will be trapped later on by either IO or
>>OUT filters. Uhmmm ...
> 
> Oh, they should: if virus found the message is trashed once for all with no 
> need to repeat the scan for each ML user. Also, without ML scanning I 
> should enable filter.out scanning to prevent a viral message to a local ML 
> from being propagated to all non-local members. I agree that generally AV 
> scanning should be the destination server's business, but i don't like 
> viruses to spread and eat up bandwidth through a ML of mine ...
> 
> If you feel like revising the filter logic, maybe adding a 'global' (SMTP?) 
> filtering layer might be worthwhile, so that, e.g., a viral message is 
> scanned and blocked only once, and a clean message is not scanned for 
> viruses again and again. As per a previous thread ...

I agree with this! This way the virus will be killed asap.

-- 
Groeten,
Peter


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