From: Kai Wang (kwangucalgary.ca)
Date: Wed May 10 2006 - 17:57:24 CDT

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We quarantine attachments in MailScanner on the file name rules. Some of
the quarantined messages may not contain any virus at all. Our users can
request to redeliver a message is it just matched the file name rules.
So archiving before anything makes sense.

Mihira Fernando wrote:
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> Kai Wang wrote:
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>> Greetings.
>>
>> We are running postfix with MailScanner. We archive the incoming
>> messages. The archived messages are in postfix format.
>>
>> I want to write a script which does the following things:
>> 1. scan virus in an archived message
>> 2. if it is clean, tag '{Redelivered}' in subject line and requeue it to
>> postfix
>>
>> My problem is that the archived message is in postfix format. Should I
>> run postcat to dump it to another file then submit it to virus scanner?
>> Can anybody tell me how to modify the subject?
>>
>>
> Wouldnt it be easier to just scan the mail first and then archive it ?
> eg : Incoming mail -->Postfix-->Virus Scanner -->(Re Queued
> to)Postfix-->Archive.
>
> Mihira.
>
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