Release a quarantined file (postfix)

[Rakesh]

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Stephen Swaney wrote:

>>Reprocessing of the mail happens if you release it from quarantine
>>because the mail goes back to hold as it gets processed by cleanup
>>(assuming tht ur using postfix) .  In postfix it usually follows a path
>>something like this
>>
>>Internet -> SMTPD -> cleanup --> HOLD Queue
>>
>>When a mail is released from quarantine using the sendmail command it
>>follows like this
>>
>>Sendmail command invokation --> pickup --> cleanup --> HOLD Queue
>>
>>So instead of writing so many rulesets to allow all the mails from the
>>the local machine its easier if u put override options for pickup in
>>your master.cf
>>
>>pickup    fifo  n       -       n       60      1       pickup
>> -o receive_override_options=no_header_body_checks
>>
>>This will cause all those mails queued due to pickup not to go on hold,
>>so the mails wont un-necessarily go in for MailScanner processing. Also
>>with this setup the notifications tht MailScanner generates will not go
>>into HOLD queue as well and will save MailScanner from doing some
>>un-necessary stuff.
>>
>>    
>>
>I think dropping quarantined messages directly in the outbound queue will
>really release everything - even viruses.
>
>While it's more cumbersome, the advantage of setting up rulesets to allow
>skipping of certain checks for 127.0.0.1 is that you can always force virus
>checks :)
>
>Steve
>
>  
>
Right Agreed on that, but our dear friend Julian has kept an option in 
MailScanner.conf

"Keep Spam And MCP Archive Clean"

turning it on will ensure that we don't quarantine Virus Mails in the 
first process itself :-)

-- 
Regards, 
Rakesh B. Pal
Netcore Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

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