Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis quarantine

Andres wrote:

> Hi all ;)

> I have been using postfix-amavis one year and I am pretty happy with them.
> I have this setup on a 50-user file:

> $virus_quarantine_to = "virus-quarantine\@$mydomain";

> (I download every week the messages contained in that email address
> with no problem.)

> Today an email was quarantined because it had an .exe file, I checked
> the virus-quarantine mailbox trying to find it with no results, so I
> remembered that the message said:

> The message has been quarantined as:
> /var/lib/amavis/quarantine

> So I ssh the server and went to /var/lib/amavis/ but the "quarantine"
> directory is just a file and, apparently, it grew to 180Mb since
> install.

> Why do I have two different quarantines ? Can I access the last one? How?

> Thanks guys!

This was a bug in some early versions of amavisd-new on Debian.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350917

I suggest changing:
$QUARANTINEDIR = "$MYHOME/quarantine";
to
$QUARANTINEDIR = "$MYHOME/virusmails";

(this may place some quarantined items in the virusmails directory).

and possibly setting:
$banned_quarantine_to = "virus-quarantine\@$mydomain";
(or other appropriate mailbox)

Do you have a POP3 server running on this machine? If not, you could
possibly install qpopper, add a user called 'quarantine':
adduser quarantine
then:
cp /var/lib/amavis/quarantine /var/mail

Then retrieve the mail via pop3.

Then you could possibly remove qpopper if this is only a relay
server and there is no local mail storage.

If this is the case and you wish to remove qpopper, make sure it's the
only thing that will be removed by 'simulating' removing it first:
apt-get -s remove qpopper

Gary V



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