[Mimedefang] Can't figure out fetchmail and mimedefang

[Rob MacGregor]

>From: "Keli'i Martin" <werureo at bellsouth.net>
>
>    I apologize in advance for the length of this post.  I am having a very 
>difficult time figuring something out.  I am having a problem with emails 
>that do not get deleted from my ISP's mail server after MIMEDefang finds a 
>virus attached to the email.  Since these emails are not getting deleted 
>from the server, every time fetchmail polls that account, it downloads the 
>virus-infected email, mimedefange rejects this, and I guess fetchmail ends 
>up leaving the message on the server until the next time it polls that 
>server.
>
>    First, here is a snip from my .fetchmailrc file:
<---SNIP--->
>    I have Googled this for days, and so far, I've found two proposed 
>solutions, both from this mailing list.  One suggested changing the 
>mimedefang filter to use action_discard() instead of action_bounce().  I 
>didn't know where in the filter to change this.  So, I posted a message to 
>this mailing list a few days ago.  Someone responded by saying that I 
>should use the antispam feature in fetchmail.  Again, I wasn't sure where 
>to put this.  I tried adding "antispam 554" right before the list of mail 
>servers in my .fetchmailrc, but that just gave me a parse error.

You were on the right lines, but obviously missed the fact that the antispam 
keyword is a USER option in the fetchmail config file.  You use it something 
like:

poll pop.isp.net user fred with password thing is fred here antispam 554

If you try the fetchmail mailing list archive (or the man page) you'll get 
more details.

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Rob  |  What part of "no" was it you didn't understand?

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