How can I disable Amavis bounce messages?

Damian amavis at arcsin.de
Thu Nov 3 00:03:48 CET 2016


What is your amavis version anyway? Prior to 2.7.0, there have been 
other defaults for final_*_destiny:

> - due to popular demand to reduce undesired and unintentional backscatter,
>   defaults for the settings $final_spam_destiny and $final_banned_destiny
>   were changed. Previously they both defaulted to D_BOUNCE, new defaults
>   are:
>
>     $final_virus_destiny      = D_DISCARD;
>     $final_banned_destiny     = D_DISCARD;
>     $final_spam_destiny       = D_PASS;
>     $final_bad_header_destiny = D_PASS;
So you should check that as well.


Am 02.11.2016 um 23:35 schrieb Damian:
> $warnbannedsender
>
>
> Am 02.11.2016 um 22:45 schrieb Jeff Morris:
>> I just noticed that my Amavis installation is sending out bounce 
>> messages such as the one below.
>>
>> How do I shut these off? This is creating huge amounts of backscatter 
>> and getting me listed in RBLs. :-(
>>
>> I don't see anything obvious in amavisd.conf.
>>
>> I've tried to RTFM, but alas, although I can find lengthy diatribes 
>> discussing the philosophical merits of whether or not to turn them 
>> off 
>> (https://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/README.policy-on-notifications.txt), 
>> and detailed instructions on how to customize them 
>> (https://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/README.customize.txt), I can't 
>> find anything simply explaining how to turn them on or off. 
>> Frustrating. :-( Am I just looking in the wrong place? (Probably.)
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>
>> From: "Content-filter at colo1.nullmodem.org" <postmaster at nullmodem.org>
>> To: <sender at somedomain>
>> Subject: BANNED contents from you 
>> (.asc,credit_card_details_2E0B4_PDF.vbs)
>>
>> BANNED CONTENTS ALERT
>>
>> Our content checker found
>>     banned name: .asc,credit_card_details_2E0B4_PDF.vbs
>>
>> in email presumably from you <sender at somedomain>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>
>>
>>
>



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