Author: Peter Bowyer Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] 550 error when virus detected, sender not notified.
On 09/02/06, Jahan De Silva <jahandsd@???> wrote: > Hi all,
> I have got ClamAV working with Exim 4.53 and it all seems fine. Mail wiith
> virus get rejected, rejectlog records this, and i can see the 550 message
> when I test via telnet. However the sender did not get a returned mail, and
> thus thinks that the mail went thru fine. I suspect it may be my
> "no-relaying" policy or something like that. I was looking for a solution
> where the sender, recipient and postmaster gets a mail when a message is
> rejected, saying who it was from, subject, etc etc. Any ideas?
If your Exim server is correctly rejecting an infected message with a
550, then you've done the part of the transaction that's under your
control. The MTA which presented the message to yours is responsible
for any notifications to the sender which it considers appropriate.
Peter
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