ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.37.3 released

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Dec 15 20:35:03 GMT 2004


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Jan-Peter Koopmann wrote:

>Hi Julian,
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>>- Postfix problems with keeping spam quarantine clean are fixed.
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>I have to get back to this point. If I understand the new option correctly the following should happen:
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>If a message is considered spam it is nonetheless scanned for viruses/bad filenames etc. If this message has a virus or a bad filename in it, it is not send to the quarantine but simply deleted. Correct?
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It is still put into the "nasties" quarantine (if Quarantine Infections
= yes), but it is not put into the spam quarantine.

>If so, could you please make this configurable so that we can choose whether or not the mail is deleted or simply flagged as a virus? I can already see my customers receiving a badly worded mail with an .exe in it that is considered to be spam and then deleted. Personally I would prefer a setting that is behaving exactly as the good old
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>spam actions deliver to /dev/null
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>is... Works perfectly with MailWatch. I can see situations in which you will simply want to delete the entire mail but in my environments this is a no go. I could not delete a mail I already accepted just because SpamAssassin gives it a 6.01 (with 6 being low scoring spam) and having a perfectly valid .exe in it that the administrator might choose to release.
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And yes, it is configurable anyway. The name of the config option was in
my announcement.

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