[clamav-users] clamav-milter reject and quarantine?

Michael Grant mgrant at grant.org
Thu Feb 18 17:21:10 UTC 2016


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 <dennispe at 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.
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