Author Topic: SPAM and VIRUS quarantine  (Read 1738 times)

gbr

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SPAM and VIRUS quarantine
« on: January 16, 2015, 01:38:39 pm »
Hi,

Does Zentyal store its virus and spam emails anywhere?  We occasionally get emails marked as a virus, yet we trust the sender.  How can I release the email and have it delivered to the end user?

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Re: SPAM and VIRUS quarantine
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2015, 12:36:01 pm »
Hello:

Mails marked as virus should be delivered to the user with a spam header (which some clients might check and delete). This should be happening unless you modify default behaviour (pass) to drop, in which case messages would be rejected  (they would not be stored)


For virus, default behaviour is to drop them (so they're not stored)

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Re: SPAM and VIRUS quarantine
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2015, 01:51:55 pm »
Hi,

Yup, my SPAM gets passed through, viruses do not, which is great.

We currently use McAfee (used to be mxLogics) to pre-scan our emails (they also cache emails if our server is down).  When an email is marked as SPAM or VIRUS, they do not pass it through, but they do store the emails for a certain number of days.  I then have the chance to release the email if it is from a known, trusted person.  Some of the attachments we get are incorrectly marked as viruses.

Are there plans for Zentyal to become more full featured in this area, so I can stop paying McAffee to do it for us?

Gerald