ClamAV and MailScanner Bug

[Julian Field]

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Desai, Jason wrote:

>Julian Field wrote:
>
>
>>Please tell me what the line in your /etc/MailScanner/
>>virus.scanners.conf says about clamav. Also please check that your
>>Incoming Work Directory path has no links in it. This is by far the
>>most common error and would explain your symptoms.
>>
>>
>
>Julian, I think I've suggested this before, but don't remember hearing back
>from you about it.  Would it be possible for MailScanner (possibly only once
>at startup) to determine the real path of the Incoming Work Directory and
>use that, so that symbolic links would be allowed?
>
>Granted, people are not reading the comments in the config file, and are
>misconfiguring their servers.  But to detect and still deliver a virus is
>not a good thing.  And I think with some simple code, MailScanner could
>reduce the risk of such a misconfigured server.  What do you think?
>
>
How would you recommend I do this in a platform-agnostic way? I
certainly wouldn't trust `pwd`.

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