How do you setup Sophos AV Mac Home Edition to scan all OUTGOING emails automatically?

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NanoG5 wrote:

Andrew,

thanks for the very quick response! Honestly I have not so familiar with the term "on-access" in Sophos AV. Is that mean if I enable the on-access scanner so every in and out files will be scanned (including email)?

Thank you Andrew!

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Scanned by Sophos Anti-Virus Mac Home Edition

http://www.sophos.com/

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"On access" means that the file is "scanned" whenever it is accessed.  If it has not changed since it was last scanned, I believe it is not scanned again.

Because of the changes Apple made to Mail.app back around 10.4/10.5 to make it Spotlight-friendly, it is also SAV friendly; each email is saved as a file to the Outbox mailbox folder prior to sending, and is then read back by Mail.app to send to the mail server.

Both saving and reading are "access," so the message gets scanned before it goes out when "On Access" is enabled.  Safari does similar things for similar reasons, so web pages in Safari get scanned too.  Firefox caches some stuff in memory, so it doesn't get scanned until it is written back to disk (either when the memory cache fills up, or when something acctually attempts disk access).

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NanoG5 wrote:

Andrew,

thanks for the very quick response! Honestly I have not so familiar with the term "on-access" in Sophos AV. Is that mean if I enable the on-access scanner so every in and out files will be scanned (including email)?

Thank you Andrew!

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Scanned by Sophos Anti-Virus Mac Home Edition

http://www.sophos.com/

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"On access" means that the file is "scanned" whenever it is accessed.  If it has not changed since it was last scanned, I believe it is not scanned again.

Because of the changes Apple made to Mail.app back around 10.4/10.5 to make it Spotlight-friendly, it is also SAV friendly; each email is saved as a file to the Outbox mailbox folder prior to sending, and is then read back by Mail.app to send to the mail server.

Both saving and reading are "access," so the message gets scanned before it goes out when "On Access" is enabled.  Safari does similar things for similar reasons, so web pages in Safari get scanned too.  Firefox caches some stuff in memory, so it doesn't get scanned until it is written back to disk (either when the memory cache fills up, or when something acctually attempts disk access).