4.8.2.5. Rejecting viruses and spam

When filtering messages for viruses or spam, the Content Filtering modules reject infected and spam e-mails. In such cases the POP3 proxy notifies the client about the rejected message in a special e-mail.

To reject e-mail messages using the ERR protocol element, set the reject_by_mail attribute to FALSE. However, this is not recommended, because several client applications handle ERR responses incorrectly.

Note

Infected e-mails are put into the quarantine and deleted from the server.