ANNOUNCE: more bug fixes

[Rose, Bobby]

Sorry I have to smile. ;-) Now postmaster and sender notifications are
working but sender notifications are also happening for the Silent
Viruses. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 4:27 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: more bug fixes


At 20:50 22/10/2002, you wrote:
>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).

Try what I've just posted on the web site.
If you want to do it by hand, change MessageBatch.pm line 561 from
     next if $message->{deleted} || !$message->{stillwarn};
to
     next if $message->{deleted} && !$message->{stillwarn};

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