[Mimedefang] Notifying virus recipients

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Ie, if foo at domain.com is sent a virus I've currently got it configured
> to send back to the virus sender a bounce message. I'd also like
> to email foo at domain.com that sender bar at domain2.com sent them a potential
> virus.

Why?  What good do such notifications do?

> Now, in the example mimedefang-filter script the $FoundVirus variable
> is set in filter_begin() and tested in filter(). Thats keeping state, right?
> I'm doing some state-keeping magic in my filter for per-recipient
> filters and it _seems_ to Do the right thing. What gives?

filter_begin, filter, filter_multipart and filter_end form an atomic
unit in one Perl process.  The others (filter_relay, filter_sender and
filter_recipient) do not.

Regards,

David.