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<slightly off-topic here>
I actually called one of those bastards who sends me e-mail wanting to
sell me a "Database of over 300,000 e-mail addresses on CD!" I left a
polite message, and got a callback.
I asked first of all, how they got my e-mail address. "We use a program
that scans the internet for e-mail addresses." Then how do I get out of
the database. "You send a fax to the number in the e-mail." I didn't
bother to tell him that the fax number in the e-mail was disconnected so
I didn't see how that could be possible and just hung up.
It was certainly an eye-opening experience. Obviously these people have
no ethics whatsoever. I think we should push our governments to shoot
them, or at least exile them to a small desert island with no internet
access or electricity.
I'm very thankful for exim being much smarter than sendmail at blocking
these bastards every time I see that my reject log is growing by about
25-50K every day. (Although I'm sure we'll get complaints very soon
about me installing the windows executable content filter.) But I'm
still of the opinion that simply blocking the content altogether is a
much better solution than trying to shield users from their own
stupidity by trying to get a virus scanner working. Thanks Phil.
On another note, I discovered the default configuration in Mandrake 8.2
is postfix with smtp after pop3 enabled by default. The program that
handles this is available with source... has anyone seen it and maybe
thought about porting it to exim? I'd try, but I don't have any sort of
programming skills in anything except Turbo Pascal 6/7 which doesn't do
me much good anymore. ;-) (My mind never could grasp the concept of
object oriented programming)
