Re: [Exim] Exim and avmailgate

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Author: Tom Samplonius
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To: Elimar Riesebieter
CC: Exim-Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim and avmailgate
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> On Thu, 30 May 2002 the mental interface of dman told:
>
> > Another possibility for you is to use exiscan. (do a google search
> > for it)
> OK, I compiled exim-4.04 patched with exiscan-4.04-6! Everything
> runs nearly perfect with antivir from http://www.antivir.com as an
> command line scanner. I just want to fix one thing: When a mail was
> sent with a virus (e.g. as an attachment, eicar as testfile) the
> mail is not sent. The sender gets a "return_message". How to sent
> the same message to postmaster@mydomain?


I'm not sure what you mean, but Exiscan for Exim 4, scans email when it
is received via SMTP. If it fails, Exim rejects the mail. If it passes,
Exim accepts it. So return messages and bouncing, are not handled by Exim
at all, but by the sending MTA.

Tom