On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:14:21PM -0500, Dallas L. Engelken wrote: > > > > Seriously, my current take on this is that the currrent > > system never sends viruses, and this "fix" will [effectively] > > cause Q-S to generate viruses > > > > Why does that scare me? > > > > Just curious which smtp clients re-attach the original message and send > it back to the return-path?? Whoever does this should be shot! I don't
Err - Qmail for starters? Sendmail? Postfix? Exchange? All mail servers default to bouncing the ENTIRE message back to sender - most have the ability to reduce the amount bounced (but you have to patch Qmail to do that) Don't forget, in this context "smtp clients" means "the sending SMTP MTA". It's not the actual user. If it was, the actual user has a virus, and it's the virus acting as the SMTP client. I don't think any virus is stupid enough to report SMTP errors via popups to the actual human sitting in front of it... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
