Re: [AMaViS-user] still getting virus notices

[Radio G. 2. G. & C. KG [Technik] <sas...@ra...>]

SET:
#$warnvirusrecip = 1; TO 
$warnvirusrecip = 0;

Regards

Sascha



Am Dienstag, 13. April 2004 12:31 schrieb Robert LeBlanc:
> At 11:33 2004/04/08, Anne Ramey wrote:
> >I wanted to turn off notifications for virus recipients.  my
> >/etc/amavis.conf looks like:
> >
> ># Notify virus (or banned files) RECIPIENT?
> >#  (not very useful, but some policies demand it)
> >#$warnvirusrecip = 1;   # (defaults to false (undef))
> >$warnbannedrecip = 1;   # (defaults to false (undef))
> >
> >but I'm still getting virus notifications...???
>
> Are you sure the virus notifications you're receiving were generated by
> your amavis installation, and not by other sites?  There's a lot of
> worm-spew going around these days, and a lot of anti-virus products out
> there are sending notices to innocent parties (thanks to fake sender
> addresses and poorly-configured sites that bounce such mail).
>
> Bear in mind that the $warn* settings in amavisd.conf only control the
> notifications that amavis issues (and only *your* amavis installation, at
> that).  They won't protect you against virus notifications received from
> other sites than your own.
>
> There's not much you can do about virus notifications being sent to you by
> other sites, apart from treating them as spam and filtering them (e.g. with
> some custom SpamAssassin rules designed to detect this type of mail), or by
> blocking mail from the sites sending these notices.
>
>
> Robert LeBlanc <rj...@re...>
> Renaissoft, Inc.
> Maia Mailguard <http://www.renaissoft.com/maia/>
>
>
>
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