Interesting question....... Has made me think I currently have the system set for different modes of operation depending on certain factors "drop entire" or "drop part"
in the drop entire, I scan the msg in filter_begin, and drop it if it contains a virus in drop part, I scan the msg in filter_begin to see if it contains a virus, (make a note if it's clean or not) If it's not clean i then scan each individual part so i can drop the offending part (reason for doing this is that scanning every part of every msg uses a lot of resources and takes more time with 3 virus engines running) if it's marked as clean by the filter_begin scan I don't bother scanning the individual parts. Am i likely to let anything slip through by doing this ? or is there a better way of doing it ? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David F. Skoll Sent: Wednesday 16 February 2005 12:23 To: mimedefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] case of multiple virus scanners running On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Keith Patton wrote: > Am I right to assume that if a mail message contains multiple > attachments that mimedefang could spawn off a virus scan for each > attachment? Not unless you do that deliberately in your filter. And even so, they'd be sequential scans, not parallel ones. -- David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang This Email Has Been Anti-Virus Scanned _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
