> >bbowler@??? said:
> >> Is the following a complete system filter (ie will "melissa messages"
> >> get frozen and non "melissa messages" get delivered) or do I need a
> >> specific action to complete the delivery...
> >
> >That should do it. After testing I would tend to change that freeze to
> >a fail and change the message to be more informative to an end user (ie
> >add a URL) - thats because I don't like having things that make work
> >for me to do.
>
> But the 'fail' is going to go back to the sender, who in this case is a
> 'bad guy' (but perhaps s/he doesn't know it) and since said sender was
> (perhaps inadvertantly) trying to make my life difficult, to heck with
> whether or not I make the sender do a little extra work :-)
And if the mail is for a mailing list and the reply-to is set to the mailing
list address and there are several people running the same filter on that
particular list.. imagine the loop.
Granted, this is a pretty unlikely scenario :>
I've been pondering the philosophy of this whole Melissa ruliance and I think
I'll go for it removing the mail and logging the headers into a dedicated log
file.
//d
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