Re: handling malware with ClamAV milter

["manchild@dread-legion.com" <manchild@dread-legion.com>]

How you tell the sender that the mail was infected.?!?
Normally the virus ues a fake sender adresse.

cu
gringo

Thomas Goirand (GPLHost) wrote:

> Hello !
>
> Why would you like that clamv let an infected attachment go to be 
> delivered? There are no cases where ClamAV can be wrong, it's not at 
> all like detecting a spam, virus has signatures that can be detected. 
> IMHO letting the user know some virus was sent is enough...
>
> Regards,
>
>    Thomas Goirand
>
> Erik Dörnbach wrote:
>
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I'd like to incorporate ClamAV into our Sendmail mailsystem with 
> > milter, but I'm not fond of the way it handles malware by rejecting 
> > the infected mail as a whole. The only other option I'm aware of is 
> > letting the recipient know that someone send them an email which was 
> > rejected.
> >
> > Is there a way of just removing/replacing the infected attachment 
> > with an status tag but letting the mail itself intact? Alternative 
> > ClamAV milter?
> >
> > AFAIK there's some postfix thingie for ClamAV that does exactly that...
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Erik
> >
> >
> >
> >