failure of all virus scanners

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Wed Jun 15 13:57:05 CEST 2011


* Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de>:
> How can I safely handle the case of all virus scanners failing?
> 
> In the release notes I'm seeing:
> 
> - a failure of all virus scanners no longer automatically tempfails the
>   operation, but flags a message with a CC_UNCHECKED contents category
>   (just like a failure of decoders/dearchivers), and allows the usual
>   controls (*_destiny, *_quarantine_*) to be used to configure behaviour;
>   for example:
>   
>   $final_unchecked_destiny = D_TEMPFAIL;
>   $unchecked_quarantine_method = 'local:unchecked/%m.gz';
> 
> I want to catch the case of a virus pattern update gone wrong -- right
> now all the mails pass unchecked, I'd rather tempfail them. On the
> other hand - what about encrypted mails which cannot be scanned
> anyway? How can I let those pass?

Anybody?

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