MailScanner ANNOUNCE 4.37.2

[Julian Field]

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Remco Barendse wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> I have just released beta version 4.37.2.
>>
>> The main new feature is one that some of you have been waiting for a
>> long time, and I hope I have come up with a resonable solution to the
>> problem you were hitting, while not solving it the way you suggested
>> (bit of lateral thinking went on here :-)
>>
>> If you quarantine spam, you end up with the quarantine containing
>> virus-infected spam as well.
>> Bad news if you want to give your users access to be able to retrieve
>> messages from the quarantine. They can retrieve viruses as well.
>>
>> There is a new option:
>>   Keep Spam And MCP Archive Clean
>> If you set this to yes, then all spam will be virus-scanned, and removed
>> from the quarantine if it was found to be infected in any way. This way,
>> your users can't infect themselves.
>>
>> I hope this is to your liking, it's not the most elegant implementation,
>> but doing it elegantly was such a big job it was never going to happen.
>> Please let me know what you think.
>
>
> Great option! Just one question, will this keep the quarantine clean of
> bad stuff that was reported by clamav or also of mails that contain
> insecure / scripts etc?

Clean of anything deemed to be an infection. Bad filenames, viruses,
etc. That includes messages that have scripts in them, all that stuff.
The aim is to leave the quarantine harmless.
But the messages in there won't be "disarmed" they will just be removed
if dangerous content was found in them. That's due to the way I
implemented it (i.e. not perfect but it did happen at all :)

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