Re: [Exim] bouncing viruses

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Auteur: Exim Users Mailing List
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À: C.B.Bayliss
CC: A.C.Aitchison, exim-users
Sujet: Re: [Exim] bouncing viruses
[ 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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