Release a quarantined file (postfix)

[Julian Field]

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Rakesh wrote:

> 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 :-)
>
You cannot guarantee that this option will be switched on. It does have 
an overhead (all spam has to be virus-scanned, which will double your 
virus scanning load).

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