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Is it possible to run qmail-scanner without having it scan spam and viruses?

I'll explain my intentions below:

I have a standard plesk server I'm working on. It has the usual psa-sa and dr.web. The advantage of leaving this as is would mean the ISP supports the software. If I install qmail-scanner and the other spam/av programs they won't troubleshoot it for me.

The critical functionality for me is the archiving feature of qmail-scanner, so I was wondering if it's possible for qs to not scan for spam and viruses (so all it does is archive), and therefore let the default programs take care of that?

Thanks,
Marcus

Not with dr.web, because they copied the same design I used in qmail-scanner to implement it at the mail queue level. As a side note, we support qmail-scanner in ASL.

What about using psa-spam and clamav instead?

Not sure I understand the question you're asking, qmail-scanner will use spamassassin and clamav if that is what you are asking.

Hi Scott,

Sorry, if I'm being vague.

Ideally what I want is to leave the plesk defaults (i.e. the spam filter and AV) as they are and add something that will just archive messages. By this I mean that qmail-scanner doesn't even deal with the "scanning" of emails.

That way I keep the hosting provider for any support issues and emails get archived, which is what I need.

I'm probably asking too much here because if I remember correctly you can't use psa-sa with QS but the way I'm asking is if QS isn't actually used as a milter, just an archiver. Maybe there's a plugin like qs which just archives mail (both incoming and outgoing)?

Thanks

You can't use drweb with it, but you can set it to not scan and just archive messages. Plesk's spamassassin interface would still work just fine.

Thanks as always! That could be the solution to my problem scott

Where do you alter these settings so it just archives? I can't see an appropriate place on the ini file?

If you're lazy (and I am) I just turn off clamd and spamd, run qmail-scanner-reconfigure and restart them again. If you want to do it the "right" way, youd edit /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl and remove the clam or spamassassin reference from the @scanners array

scott wrote:If you're lazy (and I am) I just turn off clamd and spamd, run qmail-scanner-reconfigure and restart them again. If you want to do it the "right" way, youd edit /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl and remove the clam or spamassassin reference from the @scanners array

The fact that you're so helpful makes you far from lazy Thanks for the help Scott!