Re: [Exim] exiscan - notify recipient if mail is rejected

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Author: Asbjørn Høiland Aarrestad
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To: masta
CC: AsbjørnHøilandAarrestad, Exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exiscan - notify recipient if mail is rejected
I'll try that.

But now the newbie question. Where do I save that filter, and how? I'm
quite new to Exim....

regards
Asbjørn

> Asbjørn Høiland Aarrestad wrote:
>> hi!
>>
>> I've just insalled Exim4 and I'm trying to get the setup perfect. Does
>> anybody know how I can get exim til send a notification mail to the
>> recipient of a rejected mail, so the recipient can be told that "you
>> recieved a mail containing a virus from ...." and then just reject the
>> incomming mail? Should this be done in the "reject" phase of exiscan
>> or during delivery of the mail? Do I need to activate the perl
>> library?
>
> I'm doing this by forwarding the mail to a special account, and using
> filters to generate the mail.
>
> exiscan_av_action = redirect virusalert@yourdomain
>
> filter for virtusalert:
> if "${if def:h_x-infected:{1}{0}}" is "1" then
>    # Generate a mail to the sender
>    mail to $h_from
>         cc $sender_address
>         from "postmaster@yourdomain"
>         subject "A mail you send contained a virus"
>         text "A mail you send to $h_to contained a virus
> ($h_x-infected:).\n\
>               Please contact postmaster@yourdomain for further
> informations"
>    # Generate a mail for the original recipient
>    mail to $h_to
>         cc $h_cc
>         from "postmaster@yourdomain"
>         subject "$h_from ($sender_address) tried to send a virus"
>         text "A mail from $h_from ($sender_address) to you\n\
>               was infected with the $h_x-infected: virus.\n\
>               Please contact postmaster@yourdomain for further
> informations."
>    save .VirusAlerts/
>    finish
> endif



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