severity #891744 minor thanks On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Package: amavisd-new > Version: 1:2.10.1-4 > Severity: important > Hi, > According to the RELEASE_NOTES: > > - due to popular demand to reduce undesired and unintentional backscatter, > defaults for the settings $final_spam_destiny and $final_banned_destiny > were changed. Previously they both defaulted to D_BOUNCE, new defaults > are: > > $final_virus_destiny = D_DISCARD; > $final_banned_destiny = D_DISCARD; > $final_spam_destiny = D_PASS; > $final_bad_header_destiny = D_PASS; > > I think that the defaults should be updated in debian as well. > > I got my mail server banned from hotmail.com because of debian default > value being D_BOUNCE. This is more minor. The configuration is explicitly an example. If you run it unaudited noone can help you. I find it more dangerous just to drop mails by default, especially during the implementation of a proper policy it helps to see that things get lost. However, it is not important. Alex