On Wednesday 31 March 2004 10:33 pm, Sergey wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I think produce to discussion some patch.
All your suggestions assume that ClamAV is running in combination with
sendmail (and, perhaps, combined in a very particular way).
This is not a safe assumption. People use ClamAV with all sorts of different
MTAs - probably sendmail, exim, postfix and qmail are the most common, but
there may well be more.
Also, people use many different ways to interface the MTA with ClamAV - some
use a milter, some use procmail, some use MailScanner, some use other
methods...
So, although your ideas may be good ones, they must be able to be implemented
in a very wide variety of settings (to give you an example, when ClamAV is
used under MailScanner, it gets called as a simple anti-virus file scanner -
ClamAV itself has (a) no idea it's being used in an email environment, and
(b) no way of interacting with the MTA receiving the email (to give a filure
response) because by the time ClamAV sees the file, the email has been
completely received and locally stored).
Regards,
Antony.
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