Re: [Exim] bouncing viruses

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: Asbjørn Høiland Aarrestad
CC: rkuettner, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] bouncing viruses
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Asbjørn Høiland Aarrestad wrote:

Asbjørn> I tried to do this, redirecting it to a mailbox and let that mailbox
Asbjørn> notify recipent and then reject it, but Exim didn't like it, because the
Asbjørn> rejected mail had to go through exim one more time, and it got stuck
Asbjørn> (frozen) because it contained a virus (of cause)..... So I agree. More
Asbjørn> that one action in exiscan would be nice :)

Have your virus checking transport check for existence of a
X-Virus-Scanned: header and stop checking anything which has that header.

Or alternatively, strip the MIME part (viruses or whatever) before you
bounce the mail - saves your bandwidth, some of those virii can go upto
several megs in size. Hundreds of copies of those ..

    srs


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