Bouncing virus emails is useless... it will likely just result in a huge
backlog of bounce messages in your mail queue. There typically aren't any
useful return addresses in a virus email to send to anyway...
Ed
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Flinn Mueller wrote:
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 15:44:20 -0400
> From: Flinn Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] am I understanding this right?
>
> This is not the job of Clamav. I think you could write a script of
> your own to bounce messages if they are infected.
>
>
> On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 12:44 PM, Stephen White wrote:
>
> > ---- Original Message ----
> >> From Raymond Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Date: Monday, 09 Jun 2003, 16:56
> >>
> >> I am trying to see how this is a benefit to run over sophos.
> >> I need to cover 500 + mailboxes, so even a
> >> few bucks per user is a big deal..
> >
> > I think you've just found a benefit. I can't afford to run a
> > commercial
> > virus scanner on the mailing list server I run for a couploe of
> > non-commercial reasons (eg for the benefit of my local Scout Group) ...
> > however clamav should provide reasonable protection against members of
> > the lists infecting each other via the messages to one of the lists.
> >
> > I don't need to disinfect the messages, I just want to make a
> > reasonable
> > attempt to stop infected ones being delivered to the intended
> > victims^Wrecipients. The sender will see the bounce, disinfect their
> > computer (with whatever anti-virus software they have, or purchase some
> > if not) and send out a clean version themselves. It's not my job to
> > clean the attachments, in fact that's entirely counter productive
> > because it removes one of the immediate reasons that the sender would
> > have for disinfecting themselves - and if the email isn't disinfected
> > properly it would shift some of the reponsibility for the distribution
> > of the virus onto me. I'm suspect that 90% of mailserver
> > administrators
> > probably have similar objectives.
> >
> > --
> > Stephen White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
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