Re: [exim] Fwd: Issue with Exim and Sophos

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Author: Dennis Davis
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Fwd: Issue with Exim and Sophos
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> From: Nigel Metheringham <nigel.metheringham@???>
> To: Exim users list <exim-users@???>
> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:05:45 +0100
> Subject: [exim] Fwd: Issue with Exim and Sophos
>
> Just back from holiday and found this in the first pile of mail I
> looked at...


This issue was covered a couple of days ago. See the thread "Sophos
anti virus issue" started by Stuart Gall.

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > Date: 26 October 2006 09:08:41 BDT
> > To: postmaster@???
> > Subject: Issue with Exim and Sophos
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We started having enquiries from customers who are using the
> > Exim MTA in conjunction with Sophos for the purpose of mail
> > scanning.
> >
> > The issues that they are seeing is that every file that they
> > scan is found to be viral. This seems to be due to a script in
> > Exim designed to show when a virus has been found when scanning
> > a file,by matching the string 'found' in the output from SWEEP.


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