Bug 45481 – amavisd.conf uses non-recommended viruses_that_fake_sender RE

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Duncan Hill 2004-03-23 02:23:37 UTC]

Currently, amavisd-new ships with a viruses_that_fake_sender RE to control which viruses that Amavisd alerts the sender about.  With the ever-growing population of sender-faking viruses, this is not easily manageable.  Mark Martinec posted a nice clean solution to this issue - 

Reproducible: Always
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$viruses_that_fake_sender_re = new_RE(
  [qr'^(EICAR\.COM|Joke\.|Junk\.)'i    => 0],
  [qr'^(WM97|OF97|W95/CIH-|JS/Fort)'i  => 0],
  [qr/.*/ => 1],   # true by default
);

[Comment 1 Duncan Hill 2004-03-23 02:24:25 UTC]

Created attachment 27839 [details]
Mail from amavisd-new author re viruses_that_fake_sender

[Comment 2 Max Kalika (RETIRED) 2004-03-23 15:09:54 UTC]

I'm not sure the ebuild is the proper place to maintain this either.  I am guessing that the next version of the package upstream will contain this in the default conf.  For now, just update locally.  Or am I missing something?

[Comment 3 Duncan Hill 2004-03-23 22:00:13 UTC]

Point taken.  I'll check with the amavisd-new folks to see if the suggested change from the author is going to become the default (or at least get included in the .conf file).

[Comment 4 Duncan Hill 2004-04-02 07:15:05 UTC]

Apologies, I was blind.  The new version does have the fix I was talking about.