It is not a violation of protocol to reject a message during SMTP, and save a copy for forensic inspection. Be aware it is likely to cause confusion if you later deliver that message.
clamav-milter does not currently have a reject+inspect option, but it probably wouldn't be much effort to add. Open a bug/feature request. -- Noel Jones On 2/18/2016 11:21 AM, Michael Grant wrote: > I don't want to deliver the message, I want to quarantine it (like put it > in a directory somewhere), and then refuse it at the milter/smtp level. > There is not a violation of the protocol here. > > On 18 February 2016 at 17:59, Dennis Peterson <denni...@inetnw.com> wrote: > >> What you want to do is best done using the local mailer and not SMTP. >> Technically and literally you have accepted the message in your scheme and >> are therefore responsible for delivery. You can't both send a reject and >> deliver the mail - it violates the protocol and integrity of the messaging >> system. >> >> dp >> >> >> On 2/18/16 5:14 AM, Michael Grant wrote: >> >>> Using clamav-milter, is there anyway to reject virus infected messages AND >>> put them into a quarantine directory? >>> >>> The reason I want to do this is that I want to reject virus messages while >>> the smtp connection is still alive, but after the fact, if there was a >>> false positive, I'd like to be able to send the message on through anyway >>> after the fact. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >>> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >>> >>> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >> >> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >> > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
