[Mimedefang] When to do Virus checks

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:49 -0800 John Rudd <john at rudd.cc> wrote:

> If the virus check is more expensive than the
> attachment checks, then the attachment checks should be done first.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts about whether or not it seems like a good
> or bad idea to move the virus checks to filter_end (before the
> SpamAssassin check)?


If you reject messages with executable attachments first, let us know
whether the virus check catches anything at all.

(Someone once said programming is about generalizing the problem, not
about checking for hundreds of specific cases.)

Joseph Brennan
Lead Email Systems Engineer
Columbia University Information Technology