> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 12:51, Jim Maul wrote: >> > We tend to forward the postmaster account off our each of our mail >> > servers to other central servers that the admins read it on. If the >> > postmaster account receives a virus (they are fairly popular addresses >> > for spam and virus email) they will try to forward it on. The problem >> is >> > if that central server is using ClamAV it will bounce the message back >> > to the originating server. >> > >> >> Why are you bouncing mail back to the server? >> > > We bounce messages that have viruses. We decided that was the least bad > thing to do with mail that has viruses. All notification options have > downsides and we thought this was the least bad. What do you do? >
The message gets quarantined and no one is notified. When most virii sent are not from actual people, why even bother bouncing the message? Jim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
