Re: [Exim] bouncing viruses

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Author: Rene Küttner
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [Exim] bouncing viruses
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 03:26:08PM +0000, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Asbjørn Høiland Aarrestad wrote:
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> > I don't really know what do to with viruses recieved and detected by
> > exiscan.... Should I just reject the mail? or should i save it to
> > /dev/null to make sure nobody else gets it..... ? Any ideas from you guy's
> > on the list?
>
> With exiscan and Exim version 4, I would stick with the default
> which is to reject at SMTP time, so it is the sending hosts problem.


hi,

is it possible to reject at smtp time and send a copy to a special
quarantene mailbox? if not it would be nice if exiscan allows
combination of different actions in future releases - is this a
bad idea?

regards

>
> Bouncing viruses isn't sensible since many of them use forged from
> addresses.
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> Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison        Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
> A.C.Aitchison@???    http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

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