ANNOUNCE: more bug fixes

[Julian Field]

At 21:49 22/10/2002, you wrote:
>Sorry I have to smile. ;-) Now postmaster and sender notifications are
>working but sender notifications are also happening for the Silent
>Viruses.

Fixed.




>-----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};
>
>--
>Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ