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Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:16:30 -0400
FWIW In a message written on Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:04:05AM -0700, Steve Thomas wrote:
From: Steve Thomas <nanog () sthomas net> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org> Subject: Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
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NO! Some organizations (the company I work for, for instance) use MailScanner on incoming AND outgoing mail. I tried telling this to the person who sent the Postfix regex, but, of course, my mail was rejected. MailScanner is a very widely used product, and adding rules/filters like the one above only adds to the problems that the virus author is trying to create. Please forward this to NANOG - I tried subscribing to NANOG-POST, but my subscription request was bounced with "content rejected".
Note, unlike the postfix rule his message still made it past spamassassin has he had enough "non-spam" qualities to offset the rule I suggested adding. Please keep in mind there may be legitimate e-mail with these headers if you're going to use rules such have been suggested here. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request () tmbg org, www.tmbg.org
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