Server 5: "UNCHECKED" added to email Subject line

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Server 5: "UNCHECKED" added to email Subject line

Using Yosemite Server App v 5.0.4 to handle email services, among others, on a Mac mini (Late 2014) running OS X Yosemite, v 10.10.5. Everything was working fine until outfitting each user on our LAN with PGPMail. The secure signing and encryption is working well but each email is arriving at its destination with "***UNCHECKED***" inserted into the email's Subject title. This suggests that the encryption process is causing the size of the email to exceed the criteria for the ClamAV virus checker. Is this the likely cause and, if so, how do I fix this?

Posted on Sep 30, 2015 5:57 AM

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Linc Davis

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Sep 30, 2015 3:52 PM in response to Redial

The virus checker does not know the recipient's private PGP key, and therefore it can't check the encrypted message.

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Redial Author

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Sep 30, 2015 7:42 PM in response to Linc Davis

Is there any fix or work around?

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Linc Davis

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Oct 1, 2015 4:15 AM in response to Redial

There's nothing to fix. The whole point of encrypting mail is that it can't be read, by a virus checker or anything else. Everything is working as intended. If you want to get rid of the subject rewrite, turn off virus checking. It's pretty much useless anyway.

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Redial Author

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Oct 1, 2015 4:19 AM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks. I'm going to turn off virus checking then.

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