How to delete viruses and quarantine the bad attachments in the same time

[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 10:32 pm, Julian Field wrote:

> If you set
> this in MailScanner.conf
> Silent Viruses = all-viruses
> then it will drop the viruses without quarantining them, if I remember
> rightly.

...provided you're running a sufficiently up-to-date version of MailScanner :)

(4.21-9 is not sufficiently up-to-date)

Antony.

> At 22:12 14/10/2003, you wrote:
> >MailScanner version 4.21-9
> >
> >RE: How to delete the identified viruses and quarantine the bad
> > attachments in the same time
> >
> >Hi,
> >We are stripping most of attachments and we quarantine them.
> >Same rules apply for stripping the viruses but it really doesn't make
> > sense. We'd like to delete viruses permanently not to save them in the
> > quarantine directory.
> >
> >*** How can I tune the MailScanner.conf file to accomplish the above? ***
> >Again, how we can keep 'bad' attachments and delete the identified
> > viruses?
> >
> >Any hints?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Magda
> >
> >Some of the current configurations in the MailScanner.conf file:
> >
> >1.
> >Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
> ># Quarantine Dir = /home/quarantine
> >
> >2.
> >  Should I attempt to disinfect infected attachments and then deliver
> ># the clean ones. "Disinfection" involves removing viruses from files
> ># (such as removing macro viruses from documents). "Cleaning" is the
> ># replacement of infected attachments with "VirusWarning.txt" text
> ># attachments.
> ># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> >Deliver Disinfected Files = yes
> >
> >
> >3.
> >  Do you want to deliver messages once they have been cleaned of any
> ># viruses?
> ># By making this a ruleset, you can re-create the "Deliver From Local"
> ># facility of previous versions.
> >Deliver Cleaned Messages = yes

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