G.W. Haywood wrote: >> Currently, we accept all infected mail, and quietly quarantine it.
> May I suggest that you quarantine it, BUT STILL REJECT IT after it > has been read (and recorded) in its entirety? No, please don't do that for viruses. If they are being transmitted by a real SMTP client, you'll generate annoying backscatter. > You're making a rod > for your own back if you accept bad mail. The sender will sell the > recipients' addresses to all his spammer friends and you'll just get > more of it. That is not true, in my experience. We see countless attempts by spammers to send to invalid addresses, years after those addresses cease to be valid. In my experience, spammers do not bother cleaning their address lists. It's so cheap to spam with a zombie network that the effort required to clean the list is not worth it. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
