Re: [Exim] Exiscan not scanning incoming mail

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Autor: Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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Para: Chris Douglas
CC: exim-users
Assunto: Re: [Exim] Exiscan not scanning incoming mail
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Chris Douglas wrote:

> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> --
> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> Hello,
> I am running Exim 3.35 with the vmail-sql Mysql backend for authentication and popb4smtp auth.
> I installed exiscan/mcafee last weekend and was able to get it to scan and block outgoing emails with viruses, but it does nothing to incoming emails.
> I tried to email the author but did not receive a reply.
>
> Is this by design or doI have something misconfigured?


Exim v3 + Exiscan/Mcafee should scan incoming emails as well as outgoing.
You did disable your exim queue runner (exim -bd instead of exim -bd -qtime)
and set
        queue_only = true
(and 'kill -HUP' exim) didn't you ?
If not exim will deliver the mail before the exiscan daemon gets
to check it.


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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison        Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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