Re: [Exim] Blocking sobig.f

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Author: gARetH baBB
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Blocking sobig.f
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Alun wrote:

> I'm a bit ambivalent about bounce messages for viruses and spam. It's a pain
> when you get misdirected ones, but at the same time I feel very iffy about
> just dropping messages on the floor with no attempt to inform the supposed
> sender. If some important word document (for example) gets dropped silently


Surely that's the key points about ACLs (be it rcpt, data etc.) - you do
the rejection as part of SMTP and leave bounce reporting to the souce MTA,
it also means *your* outbound queue is saved.