Re: [AMaViS-user] mysql and virus_quarantine_to

[Mark M. <Mar...@ij...>]

Simon,

> I'm having a few issues with the virus_quarantine_to field in the
> policy table, when using amavis-new-20040701.  I believe I have missed
> something simple.  When a virus or spam message is getting quarantined,
> it will be quarantined to the default location if their is no entry in
> the virus_quarantine_to feild.  But if I have a dir path in the
> virus_quarantine_to  field e.g  /var/amavis/customers/simon
> The email doesn't go their, and just vanishes.
>
> I believe I am inputing the path incorrectly in the virus_quarantine_to
> field, but can not find any docs, or examples on  it.

The value of virus_quarantine_to field (just as its static counterparts)
is not interpreted as a file name, but is either an e-mail address,
or one of the entries in %local_delivery_aliases, typically
the string 'virus-quarantine'.

amavisd.conf-sample :

# A finer control of quarantining is available through variable
# $virus_quarantine_to/$spam_quarantine_to. It may be a simple scalar string,
# or a ref to a hash lookup table, or a regexp lookup table object,
# which makes possible to set up per-recipient quarantine addresses.
#
# The value of scalar $virus_quarantine_to/$spam_quarantine_to (or a
# per-recipient lookup result from lookup tables @virus_quarantine_to_maps)
# is/are interpreted as follows:
#
# VARIANT 1:
#   empty or undef disables quarantine;
#
# VARIANT 2:
#   a string NOT containing an '@';
# amavisd will behave as a local delivery agent (LDA) and will quarantine
# viruses to local files according to hash %local_delivery_aliases (pseudo
# aliases map) - see subroutine mail_to_local_mailbox() for details.
# Some of the predefined aliases are 'virus-quarantine' and 'spam-quarantine'.
# Setting $virus_quarantine_to ($spam_quarantine_to) to this string will:
...

# VARIANT 3:
#   any email address (must contain '@').
# The e-mail messages to be quarantined will be handed to MTA
# for delivery to the specified address. If a recipient address local to MTA
# is desired, you may leave the domain part empty, e.g. 'infected@', but the
# '@' character must nevertheless be included to distinguish it from variant 2.

> The email doesn't go their, and just vanishes.

Using variant 2 and specifying a nonexistant key (as in your case),
you get a log entry 'skip local delivery ...' at log level 2.
It behaves the same as specifying empty or undef.

  Mark