Perhaps, but again discarding a message shouldnt be a big problem for the qmail-scanner. Why shouldnt there be an option for that?
Another point of view might be from admins who has many stupid users. Who doesnt want to deal with users asking their quarantined emails. If you have many users and receive many viruses everyday storing these is a big problem also. I received 200mb of virus in 12 hours! think about that. Evren On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Sancho2k.net Lists wrote: > Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > I undstand why qmail scanner doesnt clean viruses but why does it have to > > quarantine them instead of discarding? Obviously it is dangerous for users > > even if they have virus scanners since they might not be up to date or > > something. Is there a way to drop emails with virus? > > The point is twofold. From the user's perspective, the important thing > is that they might need a copy of the message that is sent; quarantining > means that the original message is preserved for them - Just In Case. > > From the admins, and some users perspective, what difference is in > quarantining vs discarding? Either way the infected attachment is not > sent to them. The message is quarantined on the server, so viruses are > never sent on to the end-users. What danger does this pose them? > > DS > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
