Tony,

> I've discovered the amavisd-release command and if I use it, the mail gets
> released ok, but is then rescanned and banned all over again - not exactly
> the behaviour I was expecting!

This is not what normally happens.

> Doe's anyone know if this is what is supposed to happen, or have I
> configured something incorrectly?

The 'amavisd-release' causes mail to be sent over $release_method,
which specifies an IP address and a port number of a MTA to
which a message should be sent. If $release_method is undefined
it defaults to $notify_method, which in turn defaults to
'smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025'. It is expected that a MTA at a specified
port number does not invoke a content filter again, otherwise
notifications and quarantine releases would be re-scanned.

There is also a complementary utility (actually/usually just a soft link)
called 'amavisd-requeue', which bahaves much like 'amavisd-release',
except that it causes a message to be sent over a $requeue_method,
which defaults to 'smtp:[127.0.0.1]:25', which typically causes a
message to be re-scanned.

> I'm using amavisd-new-2.5.4-1.el5.rf  - so that's an rpm packaged version
> from rpmforge.  The o/s is Centos 5, and I'm also using sendmail and
> cyrus-imapd on the same server.

Are you invoking amavisd through a milter or through a dual-MTA setup?
If you let things at their defaults, it seems that SMTP listener
on port 10025 does not have a milter disabled, causing a message
to be re-scanned. Using a dual-MTA setup is cleaner in this respect.

  Mark

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