> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:33 AM > To: Shannon Werb > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Qmail-scanner-general]Re: --notify options > > > Hi Shannon, > > > the recip does not get the message, is this true? Is there any way to > > ALWAYS notify a user when a message they had incoming was blocked? > > ***PLEASE*** do not do this! There is a very good reason to NOT send > notification to all: Almost all virii/trojans/worms these days do not > contain the e-mail address of the _real_ sender. Neither my clients nor I > need or want to be notified that someone else sent you a bad e-mail. If it > is important to you to notify, take the time to study headers and notify > the abuse folks of the ISP the real sender is using. > > To the admins (me for one) of busy servers, these false notifications > become SPAM ... completely meaningless, unwanted and time consuming. >
She is referring to the recipient here, not the potentially faked sender address. Jim ------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
