[BlueOnyx:24181] Re: AVSPAM Outbound scanning

Larry Smith lesmith at ecsis.net
Wed Aug 12 14:15:00 -05 2020


Just curiosity on my part, but why would you NOT want to 
scan outgoing mail.  If a user gets hacked, oft times your
own scanner catches much of it before your server gets
listed in 37 places around the globe.

(not trying to be snide, actually curious as to why).

-- 
Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net

On Wed August 12 2020 13:50, Michael Aronoff wrote:
> I recently upgraded to a 5210R and this new server is very fast. However
> users have still been complaining of email being slow to be sent so I dug
> into the logs and it appears that even though I have AVSPAM set to NOT
> check outbound email it still is.
>
>
>
> Here is the front of a logfile section:
>
>
>
> Aug 12 11:16:07 sb sendmail[1715787]: 07CIG77J1715787:
> from=<admin at dd.ciic.com>, size=2289, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<
>
> Aug 12 11:16:27 sb sendmail[1715787]: 07CIG77J1715787: Milter add: header:
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-300.3 required=1.
>
>
>
> So you can see where the admin user connected at 11:16:07 and it then took
> a full 20 seconds to scan this simple text only email through SPAM
> Assassin. I have unticked the Scan outgoing email box in the AVSPAM
> settings and this user is using SMTPAuth (As I require for all users).
>
>
>
> Is this a bug?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> ______________________________
> M Aronoff Out -  <mailto:maronoff at gmail.com> maronoff at gmail.com
>
>
>
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