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

[Dennis Peterson]

Nobody is questioning that - it is the desire to deliver it after rejecting it 
that is wrong on several levels. For example the sender will get a reject 
message and the recipient will not know that.

dp

On 2/18/16 9:48 AM, Noel Jones wrote:
> 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 <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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