Re: [Exim] FIY: Turn off virus alerts to sender (slightly OT…

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Autor: Chris Edwards
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A: Calum Mackay
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] FIY: Turn off virus alerts to sender (slightly OT)
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Calum Mackay wrote:

| I note that the current exiscan docs have as an example:

|
| deny message = This message contains malware ($malware_name)
|       demime = *
|       malware = *

|
| which will of course cause a virus warning bounce back to the forged
| sender.


Wrong!

Deny means:

- bona-fide senders get a bounce
- spam/viruses disappear without annoying anyone

It may sound too good to be true, but it is!



| Since many of us use exiscan, and are likely to follow its
| documentation, perhaps someone should ask Duncan to discuss this issue
| further in the docs?


Exiscan author is Tom...

Cheers

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Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service