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List:       amavis-user
Subject:    Re: [AMaViS-user] Slightly OT: Amavis admin app UI design question
From:       Andy Fawcett <andy () athame ! co ! uk>
Date:       2009-11-06 17:38:51
Message-ID: 200911061938.51230.andy () athame ! co ! uk
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On Friday 06 November 2009 19:04:15 Terry Carmen wrote:
> I'm working on an user interface for Amavis along a similar line as
> MailZu, but with other functionality such as manipulating the
>  per-user W/Blist, etc.
> 
> In any case, I'm trying to decide what do with "releasing" messages.
> Manually releasing spam is a given, since sometimes it's scored
> incorrectly. Releasing "banned" attachments is also necessary on
> occasion (such as when a vendor sends an executable patch).
> 
> What I haven't been able to decide is if there's ever a legitimate
>  need to release an email that's been flagged as a virus. If there
>  isn't or it's a horribly infrequent task, I'd leave out the UI for
>  it and make the user release it manually from the shell with
>  amavisd-release. So far, the only viruses I've ever had a need to
>  release has been the EICAR test virus.
> 
> I'd appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.

There's always the risk of a false-positive when scanning for viruses, 
but in 5 years of using amavis I doubt I've seen more than a couple.

So yes, there's a legitimate need, but I think it would be so rare it's 
not worth the effort, most likely.

Andy


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