[Mimedefang] Unwanted virus scanning in new Mimedefang - preventable?

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Feb 10 12:11:48 EST 2004


On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, John Barton wrote:

> I am glad to see that MD will now use all installed virus scanners by
> default, but I wonder about the move from mimedefang-filter to
> mimedefang.pl.in. If someone wanted to exclude a particular scanner from
> being used, would we have to edit mimedefang.pl by hand?

No.  You can either:

1) Call the specific virus-scanner function, rather than the generic one, or
2) undef the appropriate $Features{'Virus:xxx'} entry in the filter.

Regards,

David.



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