Patrick, > !$Amavis::Conf::warnvirussender > or die "The setting \$warnvirussender has been retired, ". > "please remove it from a configuration file\n"; > > Why did it go? Any chance to get it back in?
Because it is dangerous and for most purposes equivalent to a setting: $final_virus_destiny = D_REJECT; @viruses_that_fake_sender_maps = (); unless you really want the infected mail to propagate. Even before the 2.7.0, a combination of $warnvirussender=1 and $final_virus_destiny=D_DISCARD was silently turned into a: $final_virus_destiny = D_BOUNCE > > so, you want to 'spam' innocent victims? forged 'from' addresses > > designed to create confusion? > > and you want to be added to the backscatter blacklist? > > If $warn_offsite = 0; $warnvirussender = 1; is a sane setting in a closed > network and a legitimate use case. No it is not sane nowadays as any decent virus provides a faked sender address when it is running on some internal infected PC. In this view neither $warnvirussender=1 nor $final_virus_destiny=D_BOUNCE can safely be used, even on outbound mail. The only useful way to warn on outbound infected mail is to deliver notifications to a fixed e-mail address, i.e. the $virus_admin or $newvirus_admin (or ther big brothers @virus_admin_maps, @newvirus_admin_maps, %admin_maps_by_ccat). Another option might be to send warnings to an authenticated username used on mail submission, but this is too installation specific, hard to provide a general solution. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user Please visit http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ regularly For administrativa requests please send email to rainer at openantivirus dot org
