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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marc Haber
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Malware and Spam Scanning in an ISP environment with "Mandantenfaehigkeit"
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Marc Haber wrote:

> >You should add "if not first_delivery then finish" at the start of
> >your filter.
>
> AFAIR, this won't re-scan if the scanner failed on the first scanning
> attempt.


Well, that's true, I guess. If you want to allow for that I suppose you
need to have some way of remembering whether scanning was completed. For
example, in some database.

> >This is effectively a "system filter" with a different API.
>
> No, since the system filter is called on the beginning of every
> delivery attempt.


But, as I pointed out, you can stop it running for all but the first of
them.

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