Fw: My Clamd or MailScanner is sending Backscatter

[Steve' Mailing List]

Additional settings already set:
Notify Senders = yes
Notify Senders Of Viruses = no
Notify Senders Of Blocked Filenames Or Filetypes = yes
Notify Senders Of Other Blocked Content = yes

I went back to look at the backscatter that I was sending.  While the subject says "E-mail viruses detected"  the subject of the email is saying "Executable DOS/Windows programs are dangerous in email".

I thought it was a good idea to indicate if someone had sent a blocked filename or filetype or blocked content.  It turns out that MailScanner was not finding a virus it was blocking on the file type.

Thus, I will just turn off the total "Notify Senders".

Thanks to Alex and Doug for pointing me to re-read the backscatter to fully understand what was happening,
Steve


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alex Neuman 
  To: MailScanner discussion 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:48 AM
  Subject: Re: Fw: My Clamd or MailScanner is sending Backscatter


  Notify Senders Of Viruses = no



  On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Steve' Mailing List <list at torpey.org> wrote:

    When my server receives a virus, it is sending backscatter to notify the sender.  As expected most of the virus are probably spam.  I know that I am missing a setting, but I have looked through MailScanner.conf and have set the settings that I think are related (see below).  Please tell me what I am missing.

    MailScanner     4.77.9
    Clamd            0.95.1

    OS = Whitebox EL3 (RHEL3 equivalent)

    Select MailScanner settings:
    Virus Scanning = %rules-dir%/virus.scanning.rules
    Virus Scanners = clamd
    Silent Viruses = All-Viruses
    Still Deliver Silent Viruses = no


    Obviously, I am missing something.  Please help me get on the right track,
    Steve


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