Solution: Let Imail call declude.exe under another user than smtpd with the 'start' command, or let declude do that with the virusscanner.
Then set a quota on the user in in question, then smtpd can still send/receive e-mails even when the virusscanner fills the quota. Then the problem is limited to that one e-mail not being delivered, but who wants to receive a large file full of zeroes? I implemented this about a month ago and I can send those files all I want without problems. -- Regards, Terrence Koeman Technical Director/Administrator MediaMonks B.V. (www.mediamonks.nl) Please quote all replies in correspondence. - -----Original Message----- - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry - Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 03:26 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] FW: Anti Virus Mailscanners DOS - - - - >Can you comment on this Scott? Any danger here? - - The decompression of archived files is handled by the AV - software, not - Declude. Therefore, the potential for a problem here would - depend on the - AV software that you are using. Unfortunately, I don't have any - information about how the various virus scanners handle this - situation. - - If the AV software is properly designed, in the worst case, it should - handle the situation gracefully (immediately deleting any - files it creates - as soon as disk space is used up). If this happens, the disk - space will be - used only temporarily. This could potentially allow the one - E-mail to be - delivered, even if there was a virus in a separate - attachment. However, - that would either require that the recipient open an - attachment when there - were two or more attachments present, which would likely be a - "red flag" - for most users (why would they be sent this second file that - they don't need?). - - This should not create a DoS situation. The hard drive - should only be full - for a fraction of a second (if at all), which should only cause minor - inconveniences (IE one incoming E-mail might get re-routed - through a backup - server, or a user retrieving their mail may get a temporary - error message - but get their mail when re-trying it). - -Scott - - --- - [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com . --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com .
