Hi,
Quoting Stefan Jakobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I use amavisd-new 2.3.3 with postfix on a linux server > But if the virus is in viruses_that_fake_sender_maps then the recipient will > get an email. But this shouldn't be so. In this case nobody should get a > notification by amavisd. >Can somebody explain me why the recipient gets a notification by amavisd? I believe this to be the intended behaviour, it's certainly how I have things set up. When a user is sent a virus, they get a notification that it has been blocked. An administrator can also recieve a notification that a virus was blocked. In the past it was a case that the sender would also get a notification that they had sent a virus. This all changed with mass mailing worms (Klez?) which began faking the sender address - which resulted in many people receiving virus notifications for emails spoofed in their name - resulting in much more traffic than the original virus had created. The 'viruses_that_fake_sender_maps' configuration option allows you to define which viruses are known to fake the sender address - and hence not to sent notifications back to a faked address (where some innocent person is otherwise sat receiving all of these notifications for viruses they didn't send). Even if the sender address is spoofed, the recipient address must be valid for the recipient to receieve the infected mail - hence they should get a notification regardless of the sender address. Sending a notification on to the recipient, isn't going to annoy any innocent people, even if the original infected message was sent from a faked address. Personally I've got $warnvirussender=0 and don't send notifications to the sender regardless. IMHO DSN's and virus-found notifications just add to the problems of spam. You've also got the problems of keeping the 'viruses_that_fake_sender_maps' list upto-date as new viruses come out. If you wanted to change the behaviour of amavisd-new then I'm sure Mark would be able to point you to the specific area of code to twiddle. Regards Richard -- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
