[Mimedefang] Virus Handling

[Russ GilmanHunt]

You know, in general I'd say ... with Klez or another of the reply-to
mutilating virii, I'd silently drop it, but with a normal virus, I'd
return it. If I was a more confident perl guru I'd write up a regex and
post it to the list.

Russ

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 08:56, Rick Mallett wrote:
> Sorry, to ask this question again, but my previous message was
> kind of wordy so I thought I'd try again and keep it simple.
> 
> I'm looking for advice on handling messages that contain a virus,
> specifically whether to use action_discard or action_bounce in
> mimedefang-filter. The documentation sez 
> 
>   "action_bounce is not appropriate for use with viruses,"
> 
> yet the sample filter uses action_bounce in the virus detection
> portion of routine "filter" as in
> 
>   action_bounce("Virus $VirusName found in mail - rejected");
> 
> and I I figured there might be good reason for this and I'm reluctant
> to change it to action_discard in case something gets broken. Any
> advice greatly appreciated. 
> 
> - rick --
> 
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