[AMaViS-user] Amavisd-new generating 'VIRUS (...) FROM LOCAL' messages for remote senders...

[Daniel P. <da...@ri...>]

I have recently moved to using amavisd-new to filter out spam and
viruses in my mail system, which is working wonderfully.

I have postfix configured to route only inbound remote messages into the
amavis scanning routine, so I know for a fact that none of the mail
being scanned is generated by a local system - backed by the source
addresses being from Internet hosts.

So, as a result I am a bit puzzled as to why amavisd is sending a
notification to postmaster telling me that all the virus messages are
from local senders.

I have the local domains lookup set to:

$local_domains_re = new_RE( qr'.*' );

As I understand things from the comments and documentation, this is used
to determine if a *recipient* of email is local - that is, all of the
mail that passes through this.

Have I misunderstood the meaning of this parameter, leading to these
spurious virus warnings, or is there something else I should be tuning?

Thanks,
        Daniel

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