On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:50:36 -0500, Brent Charbonneau wrote:
I'm new to Qmail-Scanner, so I'm not sure this will be accurate.
Message 1/4 is deliveredExpected. This message should not be blocked.
Message 2/4 is caught and a notification is sent to recipWould seem to be semi-expected. The message should be blocked, at least given the default quarantine-attachments.txt file. The message does not contain a virus string so should not be caught by your av scanner. However, the default quarantine-attachments.txt file directs Qmail-Scanner to block messages with a 69 byte attachment named "EICAR.COM" which this message does have. Your installtion specified "--notify psender,precips", so, in theory, notifications should have been sent to both the sender and the recipient. Like you, I can get Qmail-Scanner to send notifications to the recipient but not the sender. That's one I haven't figured out yet.
Message 3/4 is caught and no one is notifiedExpected. This has an attachment with the EICAR test virus string and should be caught by your av scanner (and so blocked). Your installtion option "--notify psender,precips" specifies that notifications should be sent when a message is blocked due to Qmail-Scanner's internal policy but not when blocked due to being caught by your av scanner.
Message 4/4 is passed, but never arrives anywhere...Could be expected. This is a spam-like message. The behavior you saw would happen if 1) the configure script did not find SpamAssassin and so Qmail-Scanner did not do a spam check on the message and 2) your MUA does some sort of spam check and blocks the message. This is what happens with me. The message did not arrive in my inbox but rather in my Junk folder (where my MUA puts the spam it catches).
Hope that answers your question.
Thanks for the response.
Yes, I have no problem with the results of messages 1-3, they are responding as I expected them to, and how they reacted before I upgraded the system. My problem is only with the results of message 4.
The issue with Message 4, which I think I forgot to mention explicity in my last message, is that I *don't* have spamassasin, or any spam-filtering software installed anywhere along the line of delivery. As such, I expect Message 4 to be delivered to it's recipient. This sis not te behavior that is occuring. As the logs show, qmail-scanner is logging a 'Clear:' status (like Message 1) but that message is never reaching my mailbox (unlike Message 1).
Thanks again, -b
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