> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:01, jef moskot wrote: >> Worse than that, if the virus is still attached, you're now sending it >> to >> someone who might not have otherwise received it. You're helping to >> spread the infection. > > When I say bounce I mean reject. We try not to accept them. But > sometimes we end up accepting them and they will "bounce" back. If we > warn sender we will often be sending messages to people who have been > spoofed (it will always go to the sender's email address). If we warn > recipient then they will flood us asking for information about email > that has been sent to them. > > Rejection is fairly popular, but it is a game of hot potato. Someone's > smtp server has the message and will need to deal with it. It is bad > practice to drop messages in the round file and not tell anyone about > it. >
If the message is created by a virus and spreading a virus, who would you like to tell about it? I dont see why simply dropping it is bad in any way. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
