[Mimedefang] fetchmail and mimedefang for antivirus
Keli'i Martin
werureo at bellsouth.net
Wed Sep 24 01:32:14 EDT 2003
I have been having a difficult time getting something to work. I
recently found a posting by doing a Google search, but I'm needing more
help trying to figure this out. The posting is here:
http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2002-June/001564.html
It's over a year old, which is why I am re-posting it.
Basically, my situation is the same. I have fetchmail set up to
download email from my ISP to my Red Hat Linux machine. On that
machine, I have mimedefang and spamassassin set up. Recently, with the
latest Microsoft hoax email virus going around, I've been getting hit
hard. I was getting email sent to my root account from
FETCHMAIL-DAEMON at localhost.localdomain, saying that there was a General
SMTP/ESMTP error.
From what I've read, mimedefang is rejecting these emails and, as a
result, fetchmail cannot delete the email from the server because it
couldn't finish its job. This is exactly what is happening with me.
There were about 99 infected emails sitting on my ISP's server. I guess
fetchmail was constantly trying to download those emails, and each time
it got rejected by mimedefang, it would send an email to root from
FETCHMAIL-DAEMON telling me so. I got over 20,000 of these e-mails in
the span of three days.
Anyway, David F. Skoll, the author of the above post, recommended
changing the MIMEdefang filter to call action_discard() instead of
action_bounce(). My question is this: where exactly do I make this
change in the filter? I found a place in the filter that called
action_bounce and changed that to action_discard, but then none of my
email was getting downloaded.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I have no idea how to fix
this.
Keli'i Martin
werureo at bellsouth dot net
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