I have a question regarding the --noreject man page entry, specifically the
last line:
-N, --noreject
When clamav-milter processes an e-mail which contains a
virus it rejects the e-mail by using the SMTP code 550
or 554 depending on the state machine. This option
causes clamav-milter to silently discard such messages.
It is recommended that system administrators use this
option when NOT using the --bounce option.
It is not immediately obvious why, if you are NOT generating new bounce
e-mails (which no one should be doing), you should also be silently
discarding viruses instead of returning a 550/554 error code.
It would seem to me that if you aren't generating bounces, you would WANT
to return a 550/554 in the SMTP transaction, so any valid senders would know
that their mail was not accepted.
Am I missing something, or is this an error in the man page ?
-Chris
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Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 967-7816
WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
http://www.westnet.com/
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