Releasing quarantined messages with exim

[Brent Addis]

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Or you could setup mailwatch.

Much cooler.

http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net

Regards,

Brent Addis
Group Systems Administrator
Times Media Group

"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know". -- Lao Tsu



Scott Silva wrote:

> Kirk Lowery wrote:
>
>> Dhawal Doshy <dhawal <at> NETMAGICSOLUTIONS.COM> writes:
>>
>>
>>> Though I don't use exim, I would suggest looking at sendmail2 config in
>>> MailScanner.conf
>>> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/man/MailScanner.conf.5.html#Syste
>>>
>>> m%20Settings
>>>
>>> - dhawal
>>>
>>> Kirk Lowery writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> How does one use exim to release a quarantined message?
>>>> The -M or -Mt options don't do it. I've looked through
>>>> the Mailscanner docs and faqs, but no help there.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your response. But this url is not what I'm looking for.
>> Let me
>> clarify:
>>
>> When MailScanner decides something is a virus or spam, it places it
>> in the
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine directory. Of course, there are
>> going to be
>> "false positives", that is, messages placed there because MailScanner
>> thought it
>> was infected or spam. But when I, as the administrator, decide that a
>> message
>> should be delivered anyway, how do I do that, using exim?
>>
>> Kirk
>>
> I don't use Exim, but ;
> # Do you want to quarantine the original *entire* message as well as
> # just the infected attachments?
> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> Quarantine Whole Message = yes
>
> # When you quarantine an entire message, do you want to store it as
> # raw mail queue files (so you can easily send them onto users) or
> # as human-readable files (header then body in 1 file)?
> Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = yes
>
>
> Then you should be able to copy the queue files to outgoing queue
> directory.
>
> --
> "If you have ever eaten crow,
> It don't taste like chicken!!"
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