253 Messages forwarded unscanned by MailScanner

kemis · Post by **kemis** » 20 Nov 2008, 16:19

What causes mail to skip being checked by MailScanner? I do not have a high load server (currently: 0.08 0.18 0.15 - for example).

Here's my MS report from yesterday. Notice how many were forwarded unscanned. I'd like to configure my server in such a way that very few, if any, messages are skipped.

Thanks!
Matt
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MailScanner Status:
5594 messages Scanned by MailScanner
334.6 Total MB
3927 Spam messages detected by MailScanner
317 hits from MailScanner SpamAssassin cache
253 Messages forwarded unscanned by MailScanner
12 Viruses found by MailScanner
14 Banned attachments found by MailScanner
319 Content Problems found by MailScanner
1828 Messages delivered by MailScanner

5592 Messages logged to MailWatch database

Post by **Sarah** » 30 Nov 2008, 16:38

It could be outgoing mail that is not being scanned. By default we configure MailScanner to not scan outgoing mail. Or it could be some rule that is causing the mail not to be scanned. It could also be that they were too large to scan. To find out for sure you will need to find some of these emails in MailWatch to determine why they were not scanned.

kemis · Post by **kemis** » 02 Dec 2008, 01:04

Oh! I think you're right! At least on the most recent few I see with no SA score, they are "from" my client "to" an external recipient.

Well, that was easy. Thanks!!

Matt