From: Dave Lists (listsinfonaut.net)
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 09:21:10 CST

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

>The 2004-03-11 at 09:40 +0200, Barry Gill wrote:
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>>Please for the sake of the internet can you STOP your servers sending virus
>>notifications to the originators of the message as with today's modern virii
>>90% of virii use spoofed "from:" addresses.
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>Agreed. Even SuSE is sending those bounces (I got one).
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Dear god these are annoying. I'm going to do some body_checks for
postfix to filter these stupid things out.

Dave.

>Worse: a number of those bounces include the virus attached to the end of
>the email, which may trigger another bounce if the second machine has an
>antivirus email checker configured to bounce.
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>Antivirus email checkers should only notify the local recipient or sender,
>not the external one. And bounces should be limited in size and not
>include the virus (like the one I got from SuSE).
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