Re: [AMaViS-user] Virus scanning stopped working and resolution

Adam,

> I had:
> @bypass_virus_checks_maps = (
> 'virusalert\@$mydomain' => 1,
> );

> I changed it to the below config after looking at the samples again:
> @bypass_virus_checks_maps = (
> { "virusalert\@$mydomain" => 1,
> },
> );

> AV is working again. I assume it was the missing {} that disabled
> antivirus completely but I am not perl savy enough to understand what value
> amavisd-new got when reading it without them. Lesson learned... be VERY
> VERY careful when modifying these variables :).

Yes, it was the missing {}, which constructs a ref to an
associative array (a hashref).

The @*_maps arrays are lists of lookup tables, each can be
a hashref, an arrayref, a regexp list object, or a constant
(see README.lookups). In your case it was a constant (actually
two of them), so the result of a lookup was always this constant
(a string 'virusalert\@$mydomain'), which when interpreted
as a boolean is always true.

Having perl code as a configuration program is both a strength
and a weekness of this approach.

Mark

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