Gareth Blades said: > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:08, Shayne Lebrun wrote: >> > You have no idea where the report is going. You certainly have no >> reason >> > to believe it is going to the sender. You should disable this feature. >> >> Sounds like he wants to inform the recipient, not the sender. >> >> "Hi, you got a mail from so and so, but it had a virus, so I deleted it. >> If >> you're actually expecting mail from so-and-so, please give them a call >> and >> let them know that they might have a virus. Otherwise, go about your >> day." >> >> Still probably bad form, as you'd be spamming the living daylights out >> of >> the poor recipient. > > I use amavisd-new/clamav as the virus scanner and it is configured to send > a message back to the sender only if the virus is known to be a type that > does not forge the sender information.
What if the sender has already forged the return address? You still have no idea who sent it once the connection is closed. If you simply reject it before the final .crlfcrlf you have no problem. dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
