[Mimedefang] RFC: better virus scanner status reporting?

[James Ralston]

On 2003-08-12 at 09:41:14-0400 "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:

> OK.  I need to get MIMEDefang 2.36 out today, for other reasons.
> This improved virus handling will have to wait for 2.37, or for
> consensus, whichever comes first. :-)

That's fine; I didn't intend to try to address these issues in 2.36.

> Your other suggestion (adding a way to control command-line
> arguments for virus-scanning) is a good one, but unfortunately will
> have to wait for 2.37 also.

If you have an idea of how you'd like to see this done, I'd be happy
to implement it.

The first thing I thought of was to use the %Features hash.  E.g.:

    $Features{'Virus:SOPHOS:args'}   = '-f -all -archive -ss $path 2>&1';
    $Features{'Virus:SOPHOS:regexp'} = '(>>> Virus)|(Password)|(Could not check)';
    [...]

However, it might not be a good idea to encourage people to modify
anything in %Features from within mimedefang-filter.

Perhaps instead:

    $Options{'Virus:SOPHOS:args'}   = '-f -all -archive -ss $path 2>&1';
    $Options{'Virus:SOPHOS:regexp'} = '(>>> Virus)|(Password)|(Could not check)';
    [...]

Thoughts?

James