We tend to forward the postmaster account off our each of our mail servers to other central servers that the admins read it on. If the postmaster account receives a virus (they are fairly popular addresses for spam and virus email) they will try to forward it on. The problem is if that central server is using ClamAV it will bounce the message back to the originating server.
It would be fine if the originating server never got the virus in the first place, but we have to run ClamAV in an "accept on time-out" mode in case the milter has disappeared, so it is quite possible that viruses end up on the machine. This wouldn't be so bad except that sendmail doesn't like it when postmaster is undeliverable and will stop processing the rest of the mail queue. Any general ideas? One idea was adding using "nobodyreturn" in the sendmail PrivacyOptions. Or is there a way (or a plan) to make ClamAV per-user configurable so we can just accept all postmaster mail? We use clamav-milter, I suppose that is a consideration as well. Some other milters could possibly handle it differently... Thanks all. (and special thanks to Nigel who has been working on a bug to fix a memory consumption issue that will really help us out). -- Robert Schmidt -- UNIX Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] MC1021 519-888-4567 x6453 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
