From: Adrian von Bidder (avbidderfortytwo.ch)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 05:29:49 CDT

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On Thursday 18 September 2003 22:00, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bartosz Jozwiak wrote:
> > Is it possible to reject e-mail message that contain a virus, in reply to
> > end of DATA command ?
> > Right now my postfix and amavis-new is accepting message and then
> > rejecting it by sending mailer-deamon message.
>
> It is not possible, but not a good idea. Either clean and deliver or
> DISCARD. The envelope sender is almost forged, so it is anti-social to
> reject malware.

Strongly disagree.

Discarding mail at the MTA level is very, very dangerous. As soon as you have
a bigger userbase, you will run into false posivitves sooner and later - and
there's nothing worse than mail that disappears without any traces (from the
view of the users).

cheers
-- vbi

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