F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper for Linux/Administrator’s Guide
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Delete
Delete
(action=blackhole)
Deletes infected e-mails. Does not send a detection message.
Delete and notify recipients
Delete and send to receiver
(action=delete)
Deletes the virus and sends a virus detection message to the recipient by e-mail.
This setting is not typically used for outbound e-mails, because the recipients of infected
e-mails may be spoofed.
If you choose to notify the recipient of an infected outbound e-mail, it often means that
a notification e-mail is sent to an unrelated third party.
Delete and notify the sender
Delete and send back to sender
(action=sendback)
Deletes the virus and sends a virus detection message to the sender by e-mail.
This setting is not typically used for inbound e-mail, because the sender of infected
e-mails may be spoofed.
If you choose to notify the sender of an infected inbound e-mail, it often means that
a notification e-mail is sent to an unrelated third party.
Notify the administrator by e-mail
Notify Admin
(notify_admin)
Sends a notification to the administrator by e-mail. Specify the e-mail address, mail
server, and detection message in
Settings to notify the administrator
under “Common
settings”.
To separate notifications from standard e-mails, "X-Admin-Notification-Id: [number]" is
added to the header . This also prevents the notification from being detected as a
virus.“Number” is a random number, which is set as admin_notification_id in the settings
file during the installation.
Quarantine
Quarantine(keep)
(quarantine)
Quarantines viruses. The viruses are quarantined in the directory that you can set in
Quarantine directory
under “Common settings”. The viruses are stored in mailbox
format.
Specify this setting only if sufficient disk space is available.
Edit the virus detection message
Detection message
Edits the message which is shown when a virus is detected in an outgoing file.
The text up to the first blank line contains the header.
Specify the message (including the Subject) by using the UTF-8 character set. The
maximum length of the message is 9000 bytes.
For information on variables and options, see “
Detection Notification Templates
”, 67.
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If you edit the message from the command line, you need to restart the service
afterwards.