[Mimedefang] fetchmail and mimedefang for antivirus

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Jim Shewmaker wrote:

>   Ok, so I've got fetchmail rigged to collect from email accounts, the
> problem is, it attemps to dump the mail at port 25, mimedefang does its job
> and rejects it.  The problem is that fetchmail can't flush the old message
> from the original server since it can't finish it's job, and it tries to get
> it again and again, every time sending my virus notification email to the
> originator.

You have to change your MIMEDefang filter to discard instead of bounce
virus-bearing messages.  Call action_discard() instead of action_bounce().

--
David.