ANNOUNCE: more bug fixes

Ben C. O. Grimm mailscanner-sub at WIREHUB.NET
Tue Oct 22 20:50:26 IST 2002


On 22 Oct 2002 21:47:38 +0200, Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
wrote:

> Yes. If "Deliver Cleaned Messages" was set to "no", it was deleting the
> message to stop it being delivered. That also stopped any
> warnings/notifications being sent about it.
>
> It still gets deleted but another flags "stillwarn" gets set which triggers
> the warnings/notifications to still be sent even after the message is
> deleted. "deleted" isn't as major as it sounds, it just deletes the message
> off disk and sets a flag in the data structure.

One small side-effect with the EICAR test: the sender gets notified (good),
the intended recipient doesn't (good), the postmaster doesn't (bad). In
case of a Silent Virus, the sender does not get notified (good), the
recipient does not get notified (good), but the postmaster does (good).



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