Sidney Markowitz said the following on 22/10/02 17:43:
As an extra hint on this, I can highly recommend using clamav - an open source antivirus scanner. I've noticed a few bugs in it's mail parsing code (causing it to miss a few viruses), but overall I'm very happy with it.Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:there are different definitions of what spam is, and I'm sure it fits some of them.[...]appears to the person receiving the mail, it looks like spam and can be dealt with as if it were spam. It doesn't really matter how it originated.Actually it does matter. Spam is defined as unsolicited bulk commercial email (UBCE). The definition is important because SpamAssassin functions only as well as it can be tuned to distinguish between mail that is UBCE and mail that is desired. Introducing mail that is not UBCE and is also not desired can only tend to confuse the learning algorithm. This mail looks like a worm. There are programs that are written to catch worms and viruses. By running an antivirus filter on your system or mail server you efficiently deal with emails such as this goldfish, you have software which is updated as new worms and viruses appear, and SpamAssassin does not have to be slowed down with extra rules or have to make compromises in order to classify those emails.
I'm using the code at http://use.perl.org/~Matts/journal/8441 to block viruses at the SMTP level (full 5xx rejection). I highly recommend this if you're using qmail.
Matt.
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