Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?

[Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com>]

Patrick Muldoon wrote:

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> On Thursday 21 August 2003 12:08 am, David Schwartz wrote:
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> >         One of my pet peeves is anti-virus programs that detect a virus by name,
> > so they should know that it always spoofs the sender address, still sending
> > messages referring to the "message you sent". I wonder if people receive
> > those, scan for viruses, and then when they don't find one, do one of the
> > following:
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> >         1) Take their computer to a computer store and pay for needless 'repairs',
> > or
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> >         2) Reinstall/reformat rather than take chances.
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>         3)Call up their Geeky son and panic...
> <rant>
> On this subject, my major pet peeve would be that at least 85% of the bounce 
> messages that I have seen coming back here, don't contain enough information 
> to figure out where the Original Message
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Amavis sends back in the notification message the original message's 
headers (plus more if you wish).
amavis-new has templates and such.

You would think other people who pay their developers nice sums of money 
could do the same.