UNKNOWN CLAMD RETURN

Rick Cooper rcooper at dwford.com
Fri Jul 20 11:42:46 IST 2007


Julian,

Thanks for jumping into this yesterday, I got buried yesterday and had
problems just getting to the first few messages let alone getting to email
period in the afternoon/evening.

Thanks

Rick 

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
 > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > Behalf Of Julian Field
 > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 3:16 PM
 > To: MailScanner discussion
 > Subject: Re: UNKNOWN CLAMD RETURN
 > 
 > Sorry, forgot the attachment as usual!
 > 
 > Julian Field wrote:
 > > * PGP Signed: 07/19/07 at 19:50:56
 > >
 > > Please try the attached patch to SweepViruses.pm and let 
 > me know how 
 > > you get on.
 > >
 > > MailWatch may well not like it completely, as I changed 
 > "$part was" to 
 > > "headers were" so it will fail to match if Steve looks for 
 > "was", but 
 > > I'm sticking to English grammar, unless "the entire 
 > message was" works 
 > > better.
 > >
 > > Please try both and tell me if MailWatch is happy with "the entire 
 > > message was" and I'll change my code.
 > >
 > > Has someone actually got an entire message that triggers 
 > this code, so 
 > > that we can test it on a real message?
 > >
 > > Cheers,
 > > Jules.
 > >
 > >
 > > Julian Field wrote:
 > >> > Old Signed: 07/19/07 at 19:12:27
 > >>
 > >>
 > >>
 > >> Rick Cooper wrote:
 > >>>  
 > >>>
 > >>>  > -----Original Message-----
 > >>>  > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info  > 
 > >>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On  
 > > Behalf Of 
 > >>> UxBoD
 > >>>  > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:36 AM
 > >>>  > To: MailScanner discussion
 > >>>  > Subject: Re: UNKNOWN CLAMD RETURN
 > >>>  >  > Not sure on that Rick as we do not use the reports.  In  > 
 > >>> MailWatch it shows as :-
 > >>>  >  > Clamd: message.header was infected:  > 
 > >>> Email.Hdr.Sanesecurity.07061900 FOUND
 > >>>  >  > so message.header could be changed to the word SPAM.
 > >>>
 > >>>
 > >>> Do you know what happens to the message? The reason I 
 > ask is I can't
 > >>> remember what MailScanner does to the message when it cannot find
 > >>> $infections->{"$id"}{"$part"} in it's list of associated 
 > files (or 
 > >>> safnames
 > >>> I think).
 > >> To add a report for the entire message, set $part to "". 
 > So if you 
 > >> add a virus report for the whole message, then the whole 
 > message will 
 > >> be treated as infected. Whether adding this will require a slight 
 > >> change to MailWatch, I don't know. But that's the right 
 > way to do it. 
 > >> Very dangerous to add a report for an attachment filename that 
 > >> doesn't exist!
 > >>
 > >>>  It may pass the message untouched and it may remove the entire
 > >>> body I just cannot remember what the reflex would be in 
 > this situation.
 > >>> Perhaps Julian can answer that. MailWatch is just looking for 
 > >>> something to
 > >>> match the regex in functions.php (IIRC) but MailScanner 
 > may end up
 > >>> delivering the message and I need to make sure that 
 > doesn't happen.
 > >>>   
 > >>
 > >> Jules
 > >>
 > >
 > > Jules
 > >
 > 
 > Jules
 > 
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