[ On Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 17:54:31 (+0000), Chris Bayliss wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] bouncing viruses
>
> > If you want to build a reliable e-mail service then you will have to
> > heed my advice, or at least some very close facsimile of it.
>
> It is hard to see how suggestions such as "throw junk like that right
> in the trash" is consistent with a reliable email service.
If you had paid attention to _all_ of what I wrote then you would know
that this is not exactly what I recommended.
> Real users
> do send messages with viruses in them.
Yeah, right. Whatever.
> Throwing these in the trash is
> no way to run a reliable mail service.
It all depends on how reliable your junk detector is, _AND_ what
expectations you have set for your users.
> You can pass them on or
> bounce them.
NO, you CANNOT bounce them -- or rather you _MUST_NOT_ bounce them! Now
that is what this has all been about.
You _can_ pass along a de-fanged copy, IFF you know how to do so reliably.
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Greg A. Woods
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