Michael Scheidell wrote:
> sanesecurity site:
> refrences this archived email:
> says to set bypass_decode_parts=1 in amavisd.conf
> 
> amavisd says to set it to 0 if you are using bounce_killer or using 
> 'file' to guess the attachment type.
> 
> (i have it set to 0, using bounce killer and file)
> 
> (http://marc.info/?t=117951293700001&r=1&w=2)
> 
> OT: bill, funny thing:  I can't look up your DNS servers from our 
> internal network..

Well that's strange, since the domain is public hosted by EditDNS (check
"whois inetmsg.com").  The other strange things is I just sent you an
email off list about something else.

> http://sanesecurity.com/usage.htm
> 
> says: uncomment the #qr'^MAIL'
> 
> @keep_decoded_original_maps = (new_RE(
>  qr'^MAIL$',   # retain full original message for virus checking (can be 
> slow)
>   qr'^MAIL-UNDECIPHERABLE$', # recheck full mail if it contains 
> undecipherables
>   qr'^(ASCII(?! cpio)|text|uuencoded|xxencoded|binhex)'i,
> # qr'^Zip archive data',     # don't trust Archive::Zip
> ));
> 
> 
> and it looks like sane security test #2 and 3 did fail if I don't do 
> this in amavisd.conf:
> (uncomment out the qr'^MAIL'.
> 
> so, 'can be slow'.  how slow is it? and is bill landry wrong saying I 
> need bypass-decode_parts=1?
> is this something fixed in 2.6.2?

Not required, but if you don't use "bypass-decode_parts = 1", then you
will want to set "$keep_decoded_original_re = 1" so that clamd can also
scan the entire message and not just all of the decoded parts separately.

Bill

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