Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I guess that's as effective for reducing the bulk of your inbox as sending > "550 executables not accepted", especially if you don't have control over > the mail server and you match this virus with 100% accuracy. > > Either way, /dev/null or 550 after DATA crlf.crlf you've recieved the > whole message.
"550 executables not accepted" would obviously be a superior solution.
How do you do it? My google searches and list archive searches turned
up nothing...
> The 550 would inform the sender of a non-automated message that your
> server didn't accept delivery based on content. This of course means you
> are scanning for bad content during the SMTP delivery session. I think it
> is a bad idea to post-delivery 'bounce' an email or to forward an email to
> the recipient if you found a virus in it. The 'sender' and 'reciever' in
> the From: and To: headers are almost definatly forged.
Agreed.
Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to
be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge
gives. A popular government without popular information or the means
of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or
perhaps both."
- James Madison
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