Re: [Exim] MyDoom filtering?

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, James P. Roberts wrote:

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| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Chris Edwards" <chris@???>
| To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@???>
| Cc: "Exim-users" <exim-users@???>
| Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 8:22 AM
|
| <snip>
| > ALSO, note that to due basic relay restrictions, the relaying MTA here is
| > not an innocent party for another reason - it *must* be the smarthost of
| > the ISP providing network service to the infected PC.
| <snip>
|
| I don't follow the *must* statement here?
|
| There are any number of legitimate forward-only services out there, which are
| *not* necessarily anyone's ISP, which will forward such things to our servers,
| and therefore actually *are* innocent third parties. They are simply acting
| as reliable pipes in the middle of the transport path.

Yes - you're absolutely right. I'd forgotten this scenario.

That said, the earlier point still applies. Anyone who runs a forwarding
service and forwards us a virus (or spam) should not be too surprised if
we refuse to accept it...