[Mimedefang] calling action_notify_sender() for viruses

dimon at intellinetinc.com dimon at intellinetinc.com
Fri Jan 23 16:31:26 EST 2004


Quoting "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>:

> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, James Ralston wrote:
> 
> > David Skoll:
> > > ... if any *_contains_virus function says there's a
> > > virus, the action_notify_sender routine will fail with a nasty log
> > > message.
> 
> > That strikes be as being perfectly reasonable.
> 
> > However (in case you are considering it), I would argue that calling
> > action_bounce() after a message tests positive for a virus is a
> > reasonable thing to do.
> 
> Right.  I won't be adding an interlock between virus detection and
> action_bounce.
> 

What about if I don't want to bounce the message, but just drop the infected 
file + notify sender (only if it's local sender) what happened?
I think there shoult be option to do that.
Can I enable back action_notify_sender routine even if a virus was detected?

Thank you,
Dmitry



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